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QA for helical tomotherapy: Report of the AAPM Task Group 148a)

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QA for helical tomotherapy: Report of the AAPM Task Group 148a)
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Medical Physics, August 2010
DOI 10.1118/1.3462971
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Katja M. Langen, Niko Papanikolaou, John Balog, Richard Crilly, David Followill, S. Murty Goddu, Walter Grant, Gustavo Olivera, Chester R. Ramsey, Chengyu Shi

Abstract

Helical tomotherapy is a relatively new modality with integrated treatment planning and delivery hardware for radiation therapy treatments. In view of the uniqueness of the hardware design of the helical tomotherapy unit and its implications in routine quality assurance, the Therapy Physics Committee of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine commissioned Task Group 148 to review this modality and make recommendations for quality assurance related methodologies. The specific objectives of this Task Group are: (a) To discuss quality assurance techniques, frequencies, and tolerances and (b) discuss dosimetric verification techniques applicable to this unit. This report summarizes the findings of the Task Group and aims to provide the practicing clinical medical physicist with the insight into the technology that is necessary to establish an independent and comprehensive quality assurance program for a helical tomotherapy unit. The emphasis of the report is to describe the rationale for the proposed QA program and to provide example tests that can be performed, drawing from the collective experience of the task group members and the published literature. It is expected that as technology continues to evolve, so will the test procedures that may be used in the future to perform comprehensive quality assurance for helical tomotherapy units.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 4 1%
United States 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 287 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 54 18%
Other 47 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 33 11%
Student > Master 31 10%
Student > Postgraduate 26 9%
Other 53 18%
Unknown 55 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 124 41%
Medicine and Dentistry 69 23%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 3%
Engineering 8 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 1%
Other 15 5%
Unknown 70 23%
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