Titiksha Vasudeva

1. External Beam Treatment Planning:

a. Treatment Planning simulations, CT Simulations, worked using various treatment techniques like VMAT,IMRT, SRS,SBRT,SRT,Electron based RT.

2. Brachytherapy: IVBT,ICRT

3. Quality Assurance

• Kept patient information confidential in accordance with data integrity and privacy regulations.

a. Periodic QA of all the radiation equipment and facility as per the AERB guidelines

b. Maintenance of all QA records

-TPS QA, Patients specific QA

-Radiation, Dosimetry, Mechanical QA of both machines(Varian True bream and Gama Med iX Plus ,HDR Unit-24 channels)

• Developed and implemented patient safety protocols for radiation therapy treatments.
• Conducted research studies to evaluate the efficacy of various radiation therapies.
• Assisted in training new staff members on the use of radiotherapy equipment and safety protocols.
• Investigated incidents involving radiation exposure, analyzing data logs and collaborating with other departments as needed.

• Responsibilities and work done: 1
• External beam Treatment planning:
• Extensive treatment Simulations, CT Simulations, treatment planning using novel techniques like VMAT, IMRT,3DCRT, Electron based RT. 2
• Brachytherapy based planning:
• IVBT, ICRT. 3
• Quality Assurance:
• Periodic quality assurance of all the radiation equipment and facility as per the government directives.
• Maintenance of all QA records. - TPS QA, Patient specific QA - Radiation, Dosimetric, Mechanical QA of the machines (Elekta versa HD and Flexitron Brachytherapy HDR Unit -18 channels)

• List of responsibilities: 1
• External beam Treatment planning:
• Extensive treatment Simulations, CT Simulations, treatment planning using novel techniques like VMAT, IMRT,3DCRT, Electron based RT. 2
• Brachytherapy based planning:
• IVBT, ICRT. 3
• Induction sessions:
• Conducted radiation safety induction sessions for new employees about the safe use and aspects of all radiation generating equipment used in Cath labs, Nuclear medicine, RT and Dental. 4
• Clinical audits:
• Conducted Monthly clinical audits in all departments dealing with radiation and assuring appropriate radiation levels and appropriate usage of radiation monitoring devices. 5
• Quality Assurance:
• Periodic quality assurance of all the radiation equipment and facility as per the government directives.
• Maintenance of all QA records. - TPS QA, Patient specific QA - Radiation, Dosimetric, Mechanical QA of the machines (Elekta versa HD and Flexitron Brachytherapy HDR Unit -18 channels)

• List of responsibilities: 1
• Treatment Planning:
• Extensive radiotherapy treatment planning ( 2D based, 3DCRT, IMRT, VMAT, SRT, SBRT)
• Infrared marker based gated planning for lung and liver patients using external beam RT.
• High energy CLINAX (Varian medical systems), Low energy linac (Varian medical systems), Trilogy with OBI (Varian medical systems) using Eclipse treatment planning system. 2
• Brachytherapy planning:
• IVBT, ICRT, MRI-CT based (EMBRACE-BASED) planning using Oncentra master planning system v4.3 on (Nucletron -Microselectron HDR Brachytherapy Unit 36 channels).
• Iridium-92 source based
• Eckert Ziegler BEBIG brachytherapy 20 channels (cobalt-60 source). 3
• Manual calculation and 2D based Cobalt-60 planning on Theratron 780-C and Theratron 780E 4
• SRS SRT planning on Leksell Gamma knife by Elekta (192 cobalt-60). 5
• Quality assurance and radiation safety