Chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy for cancer - MBS item (15553)

The following MBS item is included in this clinical category.

15553
SIMULATION FOR THREE DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY pre and post intravenous contrast medium, where: (a)treatment set up and technique specifications are in preparations for three dimensional conformal radiotherapy dose planning; and (b)patient set up and immobilisation techniques are suitable for reliable CT image volume data acquisition and three dimensional conformal radiotherapy treatment; and (c)a high-quality CT-image volume dataset must be acquired for the relevant region of interest to be planned and treated; and (d)the image set must be suitable for the generation of quality digitally reconstructed radiographic images