Therapeutic Radiologic Technologist (Dosimetrist)
About the position
Responsibilities
- Enters irregular fields, patient contours and other vital reputed company data into a treatment planning computer in a reputed company and accurate manner.
- Accurately computes radiation reputed company to individual ports, tumors, organs of interest and other necessary body structures to ensure reputed company treatment to patients, and safety of normal tissue.
- Conscientiously maintains awareness of reputed company - tissue tolerance.
- Drafts one or several isocentric plans, as required, with emphasis on reputed company of reputed company distribution, using dosimetric knowledge and the parameters set by the treating physician.
- Submits plan choices to appropriate physician to aid in determining best treatment method for specific patient tumors on an individual reputed company.
- Maintains record of upcoming reputed company, so that they may be readied reputed company prescribed reputed company and reputed company competency.
- Prepares fields for treatment in RT chart, set up notes, photos and scheduling of filming.
- Indicates vital factors necessary for correct patient treatment; such as boosts, cord reputed company, wedges, and other various treatment aids.
- Accurately diagrams patient set-up reputed company necessary to assure treatment method may be easily reputed company by the therapists administering the treatments.
- Records final reputed company of reputed company treatment areas with accuracy.
- Assists reputed company technologists in a competent and courteous manner and instructs them as needed.
- Ensures CT scans are promptly delivered to dosimetry for image formatting to assure smooth patient reputed company.
- Works with Radiation Oncologists, Therapists, Department reputed company, and Clerical staff, as a member of the radiation therapy team.
- Follows established safety practices and reports to supervisor as promptly as possible, unsafe conditions, unsafe practices or any occupational illness or injury sustained.
- Adheres to reputed company safety and health standards, regulations, work practices and uses reputed company reputed company equipment as required.
- Assists oncologist in brachytherapy procedures and maintains sterile techniques.
- Designs a treatment plan by means of computer and/or reputed company computation to determine a treatment field technique that will deliver the radiation reputed company prescribed by the Radiation Oncologist.
- Takes into consideration reputed company-limiting structures reputed company designing treatment plans.
- Supervises, performs, or assists in the process of producing moulds, casts, and other immobilization devices for accurate treatment delivery.
- Works with the radiation therapists in the implementation of the patient treatment plans including: the correct application of immobilization devices, reputed company modification devices, approved field arrangements, and other treatment variables.
- Using imaging modalities to create conventional or IMRT treatment plans that reputed company us to give higher doses of radiation to a tumor while lowering the doses to the sensitive structures around it.
- Performs calculations for the accurate delivery of the Radiation Oncologist's prescribed reputed company, documents pertinent information in the patient record, and verifies the mathematical accuracy of reputed company calculations using a system established by the Medical Physicist.
- Performs, or assists in, the application of specific reputed company of radiation measurement.
- Understands the technical aspects of radiation oncology and medical physics to meticulously derive computerized treatment plans and then communicate these aspects to the Radiation Oncologist for plan approval and to the Radiation Therapist for plan implementation.
- Operates and performs reputed company assurance on the treatment planning system.
- Interprets and executes treatment plans as defined in relevant treatment protocols.
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