TY - JOUR
T1 - Quality assurance guidelines for superficial hyperthermia clinical trials: I. Clinical requirements
AU - Dobsicek Trefna, Hana
AU - Crezee, Hans
AU - Schmidt, Manfred
AU - Marder, Dietmar
AU - Lamprecht, Ulf
AU - Ehmann, Michael
AU - Hartmann, Josefin
AU - Nadobny, Jacek
AU - Gellermann, Johanna
AU - van Holthe, Netteke
AU - Ghadjar, Pirus
AU - Lomax, Nicoletta
AU - Abdel-Rahman, Sultan
AU - Bert, Christoph
AU - Bakker, Akke
AU - Hurwitz, Mark D.
AU - Diederich, Chris J.
AU - Stauffer, Paul R.
AU - van Rhoon, Gerard C.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Quality assurance guidelines are essential to provide uniform execution of clinical trials and treatment in the application of hyperthermia. This document provides definitions for a good hyperthermia treatment and identifies the clinical conditions where a certain hyperthermia system can or cannot adequately heat the tumor volume. It also provides brief description of the characteristics and performance of the current electromagnetic (radiative and capacitive), ultrasound and infrared heating techniques. This information helps to select the appropriate heating technique for the specific tumor location and size, and appropriate settings of the water bolus and thermometry. Finally, requirements of staff training and documentation are provided. The guidelines in this document focus on the clinical application and are complemented with a second, more technical quality assurance document providing instructions and procedure to determine essential parameters that describe heating properties of the applicator for superficial hyperthermia. Both sets of guidelines were developed by the ESHO Technical Committee with participation of senior STM members and members of the Atzelsberg Circle
AB - Quality assurance guidelines are essential to provide uniform execution of clinical trials and treatment in the application of hyperthermia. This document provides definitions for a good hyperthermia treatment and identifies the clinical conditions where a certain hyperthermia system can or cannot adequately heat the tumor volume. It also provides brief description of the characteristics and performance of the current electromagnetic (radiative and capacitive), ultrasound and infrared heating techniques. This information helps to select the appropriate heating technique for the specific tumor location and size, and appropriate settings of the water bolus and thermometry. Finally, requirements of staff training and documentation are provided. The guidelines in this document focus on the clinical application and are complemented with a second, more technical quality assurance document providing instructions and procedure to determine essential parameters that describe heating properties of the applicator for superficial hyperthermia. Both sets of guidelines were developed by the ESHO Technical Committee with participation of senior STM members and members of the Atzelsberg Circle
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/02656736.2016.1277791
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/02656736.2016.1277791
M3 - Review article
C2 - 28049386
SN - 0265-6736
VL - 33
SP - 471
EP - 482
JO - International journal of hyperthermia
JF - International journal of hyperthermia
IS - 4
ER -