The SONORA project: Towards safe, optimized and personalized radiology and radiotherapy procedures for pregnant patients (PIANOFORTE 2013-015)

In case of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (DIR) procedures and
Radiotherapy (RT) treatments during pregnancy, the fetal dose must be assessed and optimized. However, the lack of harmonization of clinical practice results in large differences in fetal dose estimation. The SONORA project aims: 1. to develop phantoms of different pregnancy stages; 2. to investigate fetal doses and dosimetry methods for different DIR procedures, RT techniques and patient anatomies; 3. to identify the factors that affect the fetal dose estimations in methods used in clinical practice; 4. to develop and test a clinical tool for estimating the fetal doses in proton RT according to the individual pregnant patient’s anatomy and clinical plan parameters.