VERT: Virtual Education Tool in Medical Physics

Wilches-Visbal, Jorge Homero

VERT: Virtual Education Tool in Medical Physics

dc.creator	Wilches-Visbal, Jorge Homero
dc.date	2021-10-27
dc.date.accessioned	2025-10-01T23:52:46Z
dc.description	The use of virtual learning tools is growing rapidly in all areas of health care and science, including medical physics. In this regard, the Virtual Environment for Radiotherapy Training (VERT), designed in the United Kingdom in 2009, offers medical physics students the opportunity to acquire skills and knowledge as they carry out repetitive activities in an interactive environment free from risks for patients or the equipment. VERT reproduces the physical environment of a radiotherapy room: linear accelerator, hand pendant support, radiation beam visualization, room planning data, tomographic image loading system, and Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM). Additionally, it simulates dose distribution and calibration measurements and offers the option of introducing patient positioning errors.	en-US
dc.description	La utilización de herramientas virtuales para el aprendizaje crece aceleradamente en todas las áreas de la salud y las ciencias, incluida la física médica. En ese sentido, VERT (en inglés, Virtual Environment for Radiotherapy Training), diseñado en el Reino Unido en 2009, ofrece a estudiantes de física médica la oportunidad de adquirir habilidades y conocimientos realizando actividades repetitivas en un ambiente interactivo y libre de riesgos para el paciente o los equipos. VERT reproduce el entorno físico de una sala de radioterapia: acelerador lineal, el hand pedant, gráfico del haz de radiación, datos de planificación, sistema de cargue de imágenes tomográficas y DICOM (en inglés, Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine). Además, permite simular la distribución de dosis y medidas de calibración, con opción de introducir errores de posicionamiento del paciente.	es-ES
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dc.identifier	https://revistas.itm.edu.co/index.php/tecnologicas/article/view/2216
dc.identifier	10.22430/22565337.2216
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12622/7813
dc.language	spa
dc.publisher	Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano (ITM)	es-ES
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dc.relation	/ref/Scienty Med, “VERT - Simulador virtual de LINACS”, YouTube, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBIrMn1Ohas
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dc.relation	/ref/Vertual, «VERT - Installations», 2021. https://www.vertual.co.uk/installations/
dc.source	TecnoLógicas; Vol. 24 No. 52 (2021); e2216	en-US
dc.source	TecnoLógicas; Vol. 24 Núm. 52 (2021); e2216	es-ES
dc.source	2256-5337
dc.source	0123-7799
dc.subject	Virtual education	en-US
dc.subject	Medical Physics	en-US
dc.subject	Virtual Tools	en-US
dc.subject	Educación virtual	es-ES
dc.subject	Física Médica	es-ES
dc.subject	Herramientas virtuales	es-ES
dc.title	VERT: Virtual Education Tool in Medical Physics	en-US
dc.title	VERT: herramienta de educación virtual en física médica	es-ES
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dc.type	Editorial	en-US
dc.type	Editorial	es-ES