Quality management of medical physics issues at the German heavy ion therapy project

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 725-736

  Karger, Christian P ^a   Hartmann, Günther H ^a   Jäkel, Oliver ^a   Heeg, Peter ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceptance test; Constancy test; Heavy ion; Quality assurance; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; HEAVY IONS; ION BOMBARDMENT; MEDICAL PHYSICS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY; SOFTWARE TESTING;

CLINICAL OPERATIONS; GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITIES; HEAVY-ION THERAPY; INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; SAFETY INTERLOCK SYSTEMS; TEST FREQUENCIES; TREATMENT MODALITY;

ACCEPTANCE TESTS;

CARBON;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; GERMANY; HEAVY ION RADIATION; HUMAN; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RESPONSIBILITY; SKULL BASE TUMOR; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0033999357     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598935     Document Type: Article

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