Fwd: Intravascular Brachytherapy

[Chris Alston <alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu>]

>From: Mark Marshall <MARSHALL@SAINTPATRICK.ORG>
>Subject:      Intravascular Brachy
>
>
>My facility (like many I presume) is very interested in starting an IVBT 
>program.  Have any physicists attempted to quantify the time/ effort in 
>starting up a program, procedure involvement and program maintenance?
>I was involved in the Novoste trial and I want to say it took 80-120 hours 
>of my time on startup, 1-1.5 hrs per case, and 40 hours a year to maintain 
>the program.   Is this typical of everyone else?
>I presume the support would be the same for Guidant and more for Cordis?
>
>Mark Marshall
>Marshall@saintpatrick.org


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