Short interactive workshops reduce variability in contouring treatment volumes for spine stereotactic body radiation therapy: Experience with the ESTRO FALCON programme and EduCase™ training tool

We report the results of 4, 2-h contouring workshops on target volume definition for spinal stereotactic radiotherapy. They combined traditional teaching methods with a web-based contouring/contour-analysis platform and led to a significant reduction in delineation variability. Short, interactive wo...

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Published in:Radiotherapy and oncology 2018-04, Vol.127 (1), p.150-153
Main Authors: De Bari, Berardino, Dahele, Max, Palmu, Miika, Kaylor, Scott, Schiappacasse, Luis, Guckenberger, Matthias
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clinical Competence
Computer-Assisted Instruction - methods
Contouring
Delineation
E-learning
Education, Medical, Continuing - methods
Education, Medical, Continuing - organization & administration
Europe
Female
Humans
Male
Observer Variation
Program Evaluation
Radiosurgery - education
Radiosurgery - standards
Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted - methods
Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted - standards
Radiotherapy volumes
Spinal Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging
Spinal Neoplasms - radiotherapy
Spinal Neoplasms - secondary
Teaching impact
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Variability
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Summary:We report the results of 4, 2-h contouring workshops on target volume definition for spinal stereotactic radiotherapy. They combined traditional teaching methods with a web-based contouring/contour-analysis platform and led to a significant reduction in delineation variability. Short, interactive workshops can reduce interobserver variability in spine SBRT target volume delineation.
ISSN:0167-8140
1879-0887
DOI:10.1016/j.radonc.2017.10.038