Acquisition of 3D Facial Geometry of Patients' Scheduled for Radiotherapy Treatment

University of East Anglia

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Head and Neck Cancer

Treatments

Device: Hand-held laser scanner

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02930915

82-03-16

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study investigates the feasibility of using 3D-Printing to manufacture masks used to immobilize patients undergoing radiotherapy treatment for tumors affecting the head and neck.

Full description

The current types of masks that are used in radiotherapy treatment sessions for those patients who have head-and-neck cancer are 'made to measure' and the methods currently employed to make them are invasive and in some cases patients' have found this to be particularly unpleasant. Their experience motivates research into less invasive and potentially more accurate techniques for their manufacture.

To effectively develop an automatic manufacturing pipeline, and to assess the accuracy of the approach we need access to CT data from a cohort of patients for which we also have an accurate (ground truth) 3D facial model. Such a model can be acquired in a few minutes using a hand-held laser scanner.

Enrollment

12 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 69 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria