# Enabling remote medical physics services for medical accelerator quality assurance through a novel, table-top imaging device

> **NIH NIH R43** · WILD DOG PHYSICS, LLC · 2021 · $396,608

## Abstract

Project Summary / Abstract
 Radiation therapy is an effective component of the treatment strategy for patients suffering from smoking-
related cancers. Advanced techniques such as intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) improve outcomes
relative to conventional approaches. Access to this modern treatment modality is limited in Eastern Kentucky,
Appalachia and other geographically isolated populations throughout low- and middle-income countries. The
broad, long-term objective of this research is improving the accessibility and safety of advanced radiation
techniques for patients low-resource settings globally. Quality assurance (QA) programs are required to ensure
safe and accurate treatment. The complexity of QA devices is such that their use requires highly specialized
human resources (i.e., medical physicists) who must be physically present to collect and analyze data. Providers
in these low-resource settings struggle to recruit the necessary staff. This can prevent such clinics from providing
IMRT to their patients, even when they own accelerators that are IMRT-capable.
 Medical Physics Innovations (MPI) proposes to design and construct a user-friendly, affordable QA
device that will make high quality QA and precision RT treatments in these low-resource settings more accessible
and safe. This proposal will establish feasibility via two specific aims: 1) Build and test the 3 primary
subcomponents of an integrated device and 2) Construct and test a clinical prototype. The consolidation of
multiple device functions combined with the ease of use and measurement precision enable a paradigm shift if
how medical physics services and quality assurance are rendered. Sparse but efficient daily QA protocols will
be replaced with comprehensive data collection and automated analysis, at no additional cost in time or
staffing. High precision radiation treatments can be safely brought to rural and underserved areas, with safety,
efficiency and precision improved in any center using the innovation.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10256613
- **Project number:** 1R43CA261417-01
- **Recipient organization:** WILD DOG PHYSICS, LLC
- **Principal Investigator:** Janelle Arlene Molloy
- **Activity code:** R43 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $396,608
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2021-04-01 → 2023-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10256613

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10256613, Enabling remote medical physics services for medical accelerator quality assurance through a novel, table-top imaging device (1R43CA261417-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10256613. Licensed CC0.

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