ESTRO 2024 - Abstract Book

S5739

RTT - Education, training, advanced practice and role developments

ESTRO 2024

Conclusion:

The contouring by RTT of some pelvic OARs without training shows excellent agreement against the RO gold standard on CT images. The RO-led virtual training using CT data sets and OAR guideline intervention can significantly improve RTT contour accuracy on CT and CBCT using DSC, self-perception of accuracy and confidence of contour delineation, for online adaptive pelvis OAR contouring.

Keywords: online adaptive RT, contouring, education

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