Arcispedale S. Maria Nuova

Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova Nuova of Reggio Emilia (www.asmn.re.it) is equipped with two Varian linacs (TrueBeam and TrueBeam STX) and one Hi-Art Tomotherapy. Being involved in the Varian beta-site groups for intensity-modulated treatments, the site started the commissioning, QA and pre-clinical verification of its IMRT treatments with the PTW devices at the beginning of 2000.Since that time the site acquired and tested several PTW equipment including MULTIDOS, QC6Plus system, MP3 water phantom,  2D-ARRAY seven29, LA48 and  with a large set of detectors (ionization chambers, diodes and  diamond detectors).

In the beginning of 2001 the site started the clinical adoption of IMAT treatments with forward planning (IMMA). The commissioning and the dosimetric pre-clinical verification were done using the PTW phantoms specific for dynamic MLC arc treatments: IMRT Head Phantom and IMRT Head/Neck Phantom. After the introduction of the IMAT-SIM method, the 2D-Array was even used for the IMAT dosimetry verification.

The site currently uses Octavius 4D with Octavius Detector 1500 and Octavius Detector 1600SRS.

Comprehensive PTW measuring and quality control equipment (such as QuickCheck Webline systems) are also used in our routine work in medical physics. The area of physics dealing with radiotherapy is composed of several senior physicists, 2 physicists in training and many technologists.

• PTW products: MP3-M, MP3-T, 2 QCW, multiple chambers, microdiamond, T-Ref, multiple electrometers, slab phantoms, Octavius II, Octavius 4D, Octavius Detector 729, Octavius Detector 1500, Octavius Detector 1600SRS