Published July 2000 | Version v1
Journal article

Importance of proper calibration of teletherapy unit

Creators

  • 1. Dept. of Medical Physics, Lions Cancer Hospital, Visakhapatnam (India)

Description

Calibration of teletherapy machine in the treatment of cancer should be done periodically and accurately, which is deciding the patient treatment time, based on other parameters like SAD/SSD, field size, depth and PDD/TAR. The TLD dose intercomparison test twice conducted by BARC and the results are presented and discussed

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Medical Physics
Journal Volume
25
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 144
CODEN
JMPHFE

Conference

Title
21. annual conference on medical physics
Dates
9-11 Nov 2000
Place
Bangalore (India)

INIS

Country of Publication
India
Country of Input or Organization
India
INIS RN
33006706
Subject category
S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
CALIBRATION; INTERLABORATORY COMPARISONS; PERSONNEL DOSIMETRY; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; WATER
Descriptors DEC
DOSIMETRY; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; MEDICINE; MOCKUP; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; RADIOLOGY; STRUCTURAL MODELS; THERAPY

Optional Information

Notes
Abstract prepared