Task group 142 report: Quality assurance of medical acceleratorsa

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4197-4212

  Klein, Eric E ^a,j,l   Hanley, Joseph ^b   Bayouth, John ^c   Yin, Fang Fang ^d   Simon, William ^e   Dresser, Sean ^f   Serago, Christopher ^g   Aguirre, Francisco ^h   Ma, Lijun ⁱ   Arjomandy, Bijan ^h   Liu, Chihray ⁱ   Sandin, Carlos ^h   Holmes, Todd ^k  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Sun Nuclear Corporation   (United States)

^f NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^l Elekta Oncology Systems Ltd   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Accelerator; QA; Quality assurance; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

FITS AND TOLERANCES; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

CLINICAL UTILITY; CORRECTIVE ACTIONS; END-TO-END SYSTEMS; IMAGING DEVICE; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; MACHINE FUNCTIONALITY; MEDICAL ACCELERATOR; OUTCOME IMPROVEMENT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; COLLIMATOR; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; JAW; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MACHINE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION PHYSICS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY; TRAINING; X RAY;

EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HUMANS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 69649105188     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3190392     Document Type: Review

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