Is the TPS need to recommissioned after the replacing the beam center alignment?
- 1. Department of Radiation Oncology, Apollo C.B.C.C. Hospitals, Gandhinagar (India)
- 2. School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology University, Vellore (India)
Description
In developing countries like ours wherein the ratio of the number of linacs available per million population is very less, the patients need to travel miles to get the radiotherapy treatment. Naturally, it is expected to maintain as minimal downtimes as possible and finish the treatment at earliest. But instances like the failure of ion chamber, waveguide or beam centerline requires an enormous amount of post replacement work from a medical physicist so as to ensure radiation safety to patients. The quality assurance (QA) work starts with few basic tests and measurements to check for the beam properties. The big challenge for the physics team is to take the call on beam data matching, the entire beam data have to compare and match with the previous data on which the TPS is being commissioned
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Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Medical Physics
- Journal Volume
- 42
- Journal Issue
- suppl.1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 180-181
- CODEN
- JMPHFE
Conference
- Title
- 17. Asia-Oceania Congress of Medical Physics; 38. annual conference of Association of Medical Physicists of India
- Acronym
- AOCMP-AMPICON 2017
- Dates
- 4-7 Nov 2017
- Place
- Jaipur (India)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- India
- Country of Input or Organization
- India
- INIS RN
- 49051824
- Subject category
- S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- DOSIMETRY; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIATION DOSES; RADIOTHERAPY
- Descriptors DEC
- DISEASES; DOSES; MANAGEMENT; MEDICINE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; RADIOLOGY; THERAPY
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