Advanced Technology QA Consortium (ATC) Meeting Hosted by RTOG
American College of Radiology Clinical Research Center
1818 Market Street, Suite 1600 Philadelphia, PA
October 26-27, 2009


Meeting Documents



Meeting Agenda (with links to presentations in PDF format)

October 26, 2009  3:15pm - 7:00pm
3:15 PM   Project Officer Report (Deye)
3:20 PM   PI's Report (Michalski, Bosch) - including Steering Committee issues
4:05 PM   Credentialing/QA: Facility Questionnaire / Survey (Straube, Followill, O'Meara)
  • Development status of online FQ
  • Testing / Deployment plan
  • CTSU/OPEN system: linkage to ATC
4:45 PM   Credentialing/QA: IMRT Credentialing (Ibbott, Galvin, Urie)
  • Improving the Efficiency and Effectivenss of Phantom Dosimetry Tests
  • Hybrid Benchmark/Phantom Approach (using commercial phantoms)
  • GammaKnife
5:35 PM   Credentialing/QA: IGRT Credentialing (Galvin, Urie)
  • IGRT Phantom Testing
  • Data collection / analysis methodology
6:25 PM   Credentialing/QA: Proton Credentialing (Ibbott, Deye)
  • Proton Credentialing SOPs
  • QA Guidelines for NCI Trials
7:00 PM   Adjourn for the day
October 27, 2009  8:00am - 2:00pm
8:00 AM   International Harmonization of Credentialing and QA Guidelines (Ibbott, Galvin)
9:30 AM   Informatics (Bosch, Xiao, Ulin, Purdy, Saltz)
10:15 AM   ATC Collaborative Efforts (Bosch, Devlin)
10:30 AM   Software Validation (Ulin, FitzGerald)
  • Requirements for regulatory trials data management and analysis
  • QARC efforts and experience with CERR
11:15 AM   Harmonization of the Prescription Process (Galvin)
  • Guidelines for volume definitions and dose specifications
12:00 PM   ATC Yr11 Plan (all)
12:25 PM   Action Items
12:45 PM   Next Meetings
1:00 PM   Open Discussion
2:00 PM   Adjourn

Some Acronyms
ATC - Advanced Technology Consortium cooperative agreement supported by NCI, DCTD, RRP
ITC - Image-guided Therapy QA Center, Wash U St. Louis, UC Davis
CIP - Cancer Imaging Program NCI
QARC - Quality Assurance Review Center , Providence RI
RTOG - Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, Philadelphia, PA
RPC - Radiological Physics Center, M D Anderson
ACRIN - ACR Imaging Network, Philadelphia, PA


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