The need for quality assurance (QA), as part of a quality system, has been recognized for
many years. Quality control implies that the actual quality performance is measured and …

Consensus of best current management developed by a rational and deliberative process
can provide the basis for clinical quality assessment. Unfortunately, it is not always possible …

Quality assurance in radiotherapy affects the radiotherapy department organization,
management, patient follow-up, distribution of responsibilities, training and equipment …

ed JR Williams and DI Thwaites Oxford: Oxford University Press (2000) 332pp, price:£
34.50, ISBN: 0-19-262878-X The second edition of Radiotherapy Physics: in Practice is, like …

Background and purpose: A hierarchy of dosimetry, planning and machine performance
checks and evaluations of clinical outcomes have been widely used in radiotherapy for …

Introduction: In radiotherapy, a team of highly specialised professionals co-operate in
planning and delivery of treatment and are responsible for the effectiveness and safety of the …

The stepwise process of the EORTC Quality Assurance Programme in Radiotherapy is
described in function of two main criteria: the targets of the quality control procedures …

It is anticipated that radiotherapy will have an increasing role in treating cancer patients;
however, all recent developments in radiotherapy technology and the improved …

The increasing complexity of modern radiation therapy planning and delivery techniques
challenges traditional prescriptive quality control and quality assurance programs that …

Dose precision in radiation therapy is expected to be on the order of±5%, based on the fact
that certain tumors and normal tissues exhibit steep dose response curves (Herring and …