Data Collection Services

Added: May 13, 2010 5:04 pm



STATEMENT OF WORK:

Radiation Oncology: Treatment Planning System Commissioning Requirement



1. GENERAL.



A. VA North Texas Health Care System Radiation Oncology Service requires commissioning for the Pinnacle Treatment Planning System. Pinnacle3 RTP software is a computer software package intended to provide support for radiation therapy treatment planning for the treatment of benign or malignant disease processes. Pinnacle3 RTP software assists the clinician in formulating a treatment plan that maximizes the dose to the treatment volume while minimizing the dose to the surrounding normal tissues. The device is indicated for use in patients deemed to be acceptable candidates for radiation treatment in the judgment of the clinician responsible for patient care. Plans generated using this software are used in the determination of the course of a patient's radiation treatment. They are to be evaluated, modified, and implemented by qualified medical personnel.



B. Device description: The Pinnacle3® Radiation Therapy Planning (RTP) software is composed of several modules including the core Pinnacle3 functionality, Syntegra™,

P3IMRT®, P3MD®, and AcQSim3™. The Pinnacle3 RTP system is

composed of a Sun UNIX workstation (or UNIX-compliant computer)

running the Solaris operating system and software, and a UNIX terminal

emulation package on a personal computer, which allows the user to enter

patient data into the system, use that data to construct a plan for radiation

therapy, and evaluate the plan. Optionally, the user may output the plan in

an electronic or printed form for use by other systems in the delivery of treatment to a patient. Pinnacle3 includes networking capabilities to provide connectivity to other Pinnacle3, Syntegra, P3MD, AcQSim3, or P3IMRT workstations, input devices and output devices, as well as access to the Pinnacle3 database from any Pinnacle3 workstation available on the network. Networking connectivity may be via either a local or wide area network.



C. The contractor shall ensure that the services carried out under this agreement are carried out in accordance with the common rules of good workmanship standards. Contractor will ensure compliance with steps required by Pinnacle to commission the system for patient care.



2. DESCRIPTION OF WORK



A. The contractor shall provide the following:

a. Data Collection: Data Collection completed on existing Varian 23iX (Dual MV + MeV)

i. Service includes data requirements for Upper Wedge, EDW, IMRT:

1. Photons: 6,18 MV

2. Electrons 4,6,9,12,15,18 MeV

b. Data Collection: Beam Matching Services performed on 2nd Varian 23iX

c. Beam Modeling: Beam modeling completed for Pinnacle TPS

d. Stereotactic Radio surgery (SRS): Data Collection and Commissioning for Cone SRS System.





3. QUALITY ASSESSMENT



A. The Government shall monitor the contractor's performance under this contract using the QA procedures established by the VANTHCS Radiation Oncology Service (ROS). Upon completion of system commissioning, ROS Medical Physicist will check contractors work and ensure system is commissioned and ready for patient care.



B. The contractor shall have an internal quality control procedures which will the contractor will review with ROS Medical Physicist.



C. The ROS Medical Physicist will work closely with the contractor and oversee the commissioning requirement.