Right Care for the Right Patient Each and Every Time.

Purpose: To implement a biometric patient identification system in the field of radiation oncology.

Materials And Methods: A biometric system using palm vein scanning technology has been implemented to ensure the delivery of treatment to the correct patient each and every time. By interfacing a palm vein biometrics system (PVBS) (PatientSecure®, Imprivata, Lexington, Massachusetts) with the radiation oncology patient management system (ROPMS) (ARIA®, Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, California) one can integrate patient check-in at the front desk and identify and open the correct treatment record of the patient at the point of care prior to the initiation of the radiation therapy treatment.

Random positional variation among the skull, mandible, and cervical spine with treatment progression during head-and-neck radiotherapy.

Purpose: With 54 degrees of freedom from the skull to mandible to C7, ensuring adequate immobilization for head-and-neck radiotherapy (RT) is complex. We quantify variations in skull, mandible, and cervical spine movement between RT sessions.

Methods And Materials: Twenty-three sequential head-and-neck RT patients underwent serial computed tomography.