Description
Design and calculate radiation treatment plans, optimize and verify dose distributions, oversee plan implementation, and collaborate with the radiation oncology team to deliver safe, effective therapy.
- • Advise the care team on beam modifiers and immobilization devices for planned treatments.
- • Calculate and independently verify prescribed radiation doses.
- • Determine per-fraction dose and delivery parameters from the physician's prescription.
- • Conduct or support research to improve planning systems, workflows, or devices.
- • Create and transfer reference images and localization markers for image-guided treatment.
- • Design beam arrangements to spare organs at risk using treatment planning software.
- • Develop treatment plans in collaboration with radiation oncologists, physicists, and therapists.
- • Specify requirements for patient immobilization and positioning aids to ensure accuracy and comfort.
- • Plan and calculate brachytherapy treatments and source loading.
- • Educate patients about treatment plans, expected reactions, and post-treatment care.
- • Design or coordinate fabrication of beam modifiers such as compensators, shields, and wedge filters.
- • Fabricate or coordinate fabrication of patient immobilization devices, such as molds or casts.
- • Contour targets and organs at risk using CT, MRI, and PET images.
- • Measure or verify radioactivity in patients or equipment using appropriate monitors.
- • Perform quality assurance checks on treatment plans and planning systems in coordination with physics.
- • Plan the use of beam-modifying devices to ensure safe, effective delivery.
- • Record treatment parameters and delivered doses in the patient record.
- • Perform or supervise simulations for tumor localization using CT, MRI, or PET.
- • Teach dosimetry principles and applications to students, therapists, or residents.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
