Development of a TLD mailed system for remote dosimetry audit for 192Ir HDR and PDR sources

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 86-93

  Roué, Amélie ^a   Venselaar, Jack L M ^b   Ferreira, Ivaldo H ^c   Bridier, André ^c   Van Dam, Jan ^a  

^a EQUAL ESTRO Laboratory   (France)

^b DR BERNARD VERBEETEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

192Ir HDR and PDR sources; External audit; Thermoluminescent dosimetry

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192; WATER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CATHETER; DEVICE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; EUROPE; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSTAL SERVICE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; WATER;

EID: 34047109027     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.02.011     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. AAPM, American Association of Physicists in Medicine. Specification of brachytherapy source strength. Report 21 of Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group 32. ISBN 0-88318-545-8, 1987.
2. AAPM, American Association of Physicists in Medicine. Code of practice for brachytherapy physics. Report 59 of Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group 56. ISBN 1-888340-14-2, 1997.
3. Ataman O.U., Barrett A., Filleron T., Kramar A., and on behalf of the ESTRO REACT Group. Optimization of follow-up timing from study of patterns of first failure after primary treatment. An example from patients with NSCLC.A study of the REACT Working Group of ESTRO. Radiother Oncol 78 (2006) 95-100
4. Baumann M., and Brada M. Towards equity in turbulent Europe ESTRO, European cooperation and the European Commission. Radiother Oncol 75 (2005) 251-252
5. Bentzen S.M., Heeren G., Slotman B., Glimelius B., and Lievens Y. Towards evidence-based guidelines for radiotherapy infrastructure and staffing needs in Europe: the ESTRO QUARTS project. Radiother Oncol 75 (2005) 355-365
6. Bohsung J., Gillis S., Arrans R., Bakai A., De Wagter C., Knöös T., et al. IMRT treatment planning - a comparative inter-system and inter-centre planning exercise of the QUASIMODO group. Radiother Oncol 76 (2005) 354-361
7. Derreumaux S., Chavaudra J., Bridier A., Rossetti V., and Dutreix A. A European quality assurance network for radiotherapy: dose measurement procedure. Phys Med Biol 40 (1995) 1191-1208
8. Douysset G., Gouriou J., Delaunay F., DeWerd L., Stump K., and Micka J. Comparison of dosimetric standards of USA and France for HDR brachytherapy. Phys Med Biol 50 (2005) 1961-1978
9. ESTRO, European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology. A practical guide to quality control of brachytherapy equipement. European guidelines for Quality assurance in radiotherapy. Booklet Nr 8. ISBN 90-804532-8, ESTRO, Brussels, 2004.
10. Euratom Directive 97/43 on health protection of individuals against the dangers of ionizing radiation in relation to medical exposure, and repealing Directive 84/466/Euratom. Official journal No L 180, 1997: 0022-0027.
11. Ferreira I.H., Dutreix A., Bridier A., Chavaudra J., and Svensson H. The ESTRO-QUALity assurance network (EQUAL). Radiother Oncol 55 (2000) 273-284
12. 192Ir HDR brachytherapy sources. Phys Med Biol 44 (1999) 1897-1904
13. French ruling (2/03/2004) laying down the modalities of the external quality control for the external radiotherapy treatment units. Official journal No 94, NOR: SANM0420854S, 21/04/2004; 11: 7264 (in French).
14. Gillis S., De Wagter C., Bohsung J., Perrin B., Williams P., and Mijnheer B.J. An inter-centre quality assurance network for IMRT verification: results of the ESTRO QUASIMODO project. Radiother Oncol 76 (2005) 340-353
15. 192Ir high-dose-rate afterloading systems. Med Phys 18 (1991) 462-467
16. Heeren G. The bright but ephemeral life of a rainbow. A chronical of seventeen years of intensive ESTRO-EU cooperation. Radiother Oncol 75 (2005) 253-257
17. IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)-TecDoc-1274. Calibration of photon and beta ray sources used in brachytherapy, IAEA, Vienna, March 2002.
18. IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Safety Report Series no.17. Lessons learned from accidental exposures in radiotherapy, IAEA, Vienna, 2000.
19. Izewska J., and Pedro A. The IAEA/WHO TLD postal programme for radiotherapy hospitals. Radiother Oncol 54 (2000) 65-72
20. NCS (Netherlands Commission on Radiation Dosimetry). Recommendations for dosimetry and quality control of radioactive sources used in brachytherapy. NCS Report no. 4, Delft, The Netherlands,1991.
21. 192Ir calibration factors for the NE 2561 and 2571 ionisation chamber. NMI - VSL Report. S. EI-9401, 1999.
22. 192Ir HDR sources calibration. Physica Medica XIX (2003) 131-135
23. Marinello G., Barthe J., Polack J., and Portal G. "PCL" a new automatic fast reader suitable for in vivo dosimetry. Technical note. Radiother Oncol 25 (1992) 63-65
24. Roué A., Ferreira I.H., Van Dam J., Svensson H., and Venselaar J.L.M. The EQUAL-ESTRO audit on geometric reconstruction techniques in brachytherapy. Radiother Oncol 78 (2006) 78-83
25. 192Ir HDR and PDR sources for the ESTRO ESQUIRE Braphyqs project. (abstract) Radiother Oncol 66 (2003) S40-S41
26. Slotman B.J., Cottier B., Bentzen S.M., Heeren G., Lievens Y., and Van den Bogaert W. Overview of National Guidelines for infrastructure and staffing of radiotherapy. ESTRO-QUARTS Work Package 1. Radiother Oncol 75 (2005) 349-354
27. Thomadsen B.R. Achieving quality in brachytherapy (2000), Institute of Physics Publishing. Medical Science Series, Bristol and Philadelphia
28. 192Ir. In: Proceedings of the "International Symposium on Standards and Codes of Practice in Medical Radiation Physics". IAEA-CN-96-75, Vienna, Austria; 2002.
29. 192Ir brachytherapy sources and the related uncertainty. Med Phys 31 (2004) 2826-2833