{"id":514,"date":"2022-01-30T00:33:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T00:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotdecimal.com\/help-staging\/?page_id=514"},"modified":"2024-01-25T20:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T20:24:25","slug":"electron-conformal-therapy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dotdecimal.com\/help\/electron-conformal-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Design a Bolus for Electron Conformal Therapy (BolusECT)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A BolusECT will have a distal surface that fits to the patient\u2019s surface and a proximal side that is optimized to deliver a dose that conforms to the distal side of the user-specified target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a series of steps you will follow to create and optimize the shape of your bolus ECT. This video will show you how to manipulate some of the settings to create a bolus you are satisfied with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The designed bolus can be exported as part of a new DICOM RT Structure Set that you will import into your TPS for dose calculation and plan analysis. Once the planned dose is acceptable, you can order the bolus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"p.d ECT Bolus Walkthrough Demonstration.mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/668387401?h=8481b474f5&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BolusECT will have a distal surface that fits to the patient\u2019s surface and a proximal side that is optimized to deliver a dose that conforms to the distal side of the user-specified target. There is a series of steps you will follow to create and optimize the shape of your bolus ECT. This video &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dotdecimal.com\/help\/electron-conformal-therapy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Design a Bolus for Electron Conformal Therapy (BolusECT)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-514","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotdecimal.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotdecimal.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotdecimal.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotdecimal.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotdecimal.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dotdecimal.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/dotdecimal.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotdecimal.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}