Development of quality control standards for radiation therapy equipment in Canada

Among the essential components of a comprehensive quality assurance program in radiotherapy are the quality control protocols to be used on the equipment and, in particular, the performance objectives and criteria. In the present work, we describe the development of a suite of quality control docume...

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Autores principales: Dunscombe, Peter, Johnson, Harry, Arsenault, Clement, Mawko, George, Bissonnette, Jean‐Pierre, Seuntjens, Jan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5722407/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17592454
http://dx.doi.org/10.1120/jacmp.v8i1.2380
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author Dunscombe, Peter
Johnson, Harry
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description Among the essential components of a comprehensive quality assurance program in radiotherapy are the quality control protocols to be used on the equipment and, in particular, the performance objectives and criteria. In the present work, we describe the development of a suite of quality control documents for use across Canada. Following a generic format, we are generating concise, clear standards for the most commonly used equipment in radiotherapy, with the emphasis on performance measures. The final standards of performance are confirmed following cross‐country consultation facilitated by the availability of draft documents on the Canadian Medical Physics web site. PACS number: 87.53.Xd
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spelling pubmed-57224072018-04-02 Development of quality control standards for radiation therapy equipment in Canada Dunscombe, Peter Johnson, Harry Arsenault, Clement Mawko, George Bissonnette, Jean‐Pierre Seuntjens, Jan J Appl Clin Med Phys Other Topics Among the essential components of a comprehensive quality assurance program in radiotherapy are the quality control protocols to be used on the equipment and, in particular, the performance objectives and criteria. In the present work, we describe the development of a suite of quality control documents for use across Canada. Following a generic format, we are generating concise, clear standards for the most commonly used equipment in radiotherapy, with the emphasis on performance measures. The final standards of performance are confirmed following cross‐country consultation facilitated by the availability of draft documents on the Canadian Medical Physics web site. PACS number: 87.53.Xd John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2007-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5722407/ /pubmed/17592454 http://dx.doi.org/10.1120/jacmp.v8i1.2380 Text en © 2007 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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