Radiotherapy Developments
Metrology Guided Radiation Therapy
Christie Medical Physics & Engineering
Christie Medical
Physics and Engineering (CMPE) provides a wide range of
services to The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and most other trusts
within the North-West, including radiotherapy and radiation
research.
The Developing Technologies Radiotherapy (DTRT) group, led by Professor Christopher Moore, has
leading edge capability in optical body surface measurement for
patient set-up. Initially for off-line use, as part of an EPSRC
funded consortium (MEGURATH, EPSRC grant ref. EP/D078415/1), this
has evolved into on-line dynamic monitoring via the group's own
NIHR NEAT grant (ref. K021). In 2012 a volunteer study showed our
technology deliverables could provide true real-time functionality
in the treatment room. Capable of forming the basis of a new form
of assistive technology for patients and clinical staff alike, by
providing live feedback to the patient to help them control and
reduce their motion alongside analysis for clinicians, it gives
objective and intuitive meaning to that age old instruction to
'keep still'.
Radiotherapy Related Research Theme
The Radiotherapy unit at The Christie is one of largest in the
world. More than 130,000 radiotherapy treatments are delivered to
approximately 8000 patients per year. There is an outstanding
legacy of radiotherapy research based on the site that includes
Manchester brachytherapy system, Linac accelerator development in
the 1950's, Development of Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy
(IMRT), Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT), cone beam imaging,
Volumetric arc Therapy (VMAT).
Building on that strong legacy the Radiotherapy Related Research
(RRR) centre sits within the Institute of Cancer sciences is
chaired by Professor Tim
Illidge The RRR
consists of more than 20 senior multidisciplinary researchers who
meet monthly and is an integrated, collaborative, collegiate group;
with strong national presence. The RRR also sits within the
Manchester
Cancer Research Centre.
The RRR group is split into a variety of research
themes:
