In a recent session of our IQM Webinar Series, Shinobu Kumagai, Medical Physicist at Teikyo University Hospital in Tokyo, showcased the clinical benefits of real-time beam monitoring: “Beyond Conventional QA: IQM Real-time Monitoring for Every Patient.”
Seamless Integration of IQM
Shinobu and the team at Teikyo University Hospital leverage IQM to enhance treatment precision and patient safety through real-time beam monitoring. Their approach integrates IQM seamlessly into their workflow, ensuring continuous quality assurance across treatments such as:
- VMAT-based Total Body Irradiation (VMAT-TBI): Utilizing IQM’s real-time verification capabilities to address challenges in large-field QA, reducing measurement time while ensuring high accuracy.
- Linac-based Online Adaptive Radiotherapy (Online-ART): Implementing IQM to validate beam accuracy in real-time, optimizing treatment adaptation for inoperable cervical cancer patients.
- Comprehensive Machine & Patient QA: IQM’s role in intra-treatment QA supports high-precision radiotherapy across 620+ patients treated in 2024.
IQM in Action: Raising the Bar for Accuracy and Patient Safety at Teikyo University Hospital
Teikyo University Hospital combines IQM with other monitoring systems like Catalyst and EPIgray to establish a new benchmark for safety and efficiency in radiotherapy.
Their findings strongly position IQM as a must-have tool in modern clinical QA:
- “IQM is essential for the safe implementation of all treatments (VMAT, SBRT, DCAT).”
- “IQM is particularly useful in special treatment cases, providing high-quality verification results.”
- “IQM is a critical tool for the clinical implementation of Online Adaptive Radiotherapy.”
“With IQM, we can verify beam delivery in real time – for every patient, every segment, every day.”
Shinobu Kumagai, Medical Physicist, Teikyo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan