Published 2016
| Version v1
Book
Analysis of daily quality assurance tests for tomotherapy and two Varian linear accelerators - three months review
Creators
- 1. Departments of Radiation Oncology and Medical Physics, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai (India)
Description
Daily quality assurance (QA) for high precision radiotherapy equipments is very important to maintain the mechanical and dosimetric accuracy for patient treatments. Gross deviations in these parameters may have an adverse impact on the delivery of the treatments to patients. We report the results of daily QA tests performed over a period of three months for two Varian linear accelerators and a Tomotherapy machine
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Banaras Hindu University
- Imprint Place
- Varanasi (India)
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the annual conference of Association of Medical Physicists of India (Northern Chapter) - exploring diverse applications of medical physics in cancer management: souvenir and conference proceedings
- Imprint Pagination
- 115 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 85
Conference
- Title
- annual conference of Association of Medical Physicists of India (Northern Chapter)
- Acronym
- AMPICON-NC 2016
- Dates
- 20-21 Feb 2016
- Place
- Varanasi (India)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- India
- Country of Input or Organization
- India
- INIS RN
- 47086351
- Subject category
- S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- PERSONNEL DOSIMETRY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY
- Descriptors DEC
- DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; DOSIMETRY; MEDICINE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; RADIOLOGY; THERAPY