Published November 2017 | Version v1
Journal article

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

Additional details

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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