Open AccessImaging system QA of a medical accelerator, Novalis Tx, for IGRT per TG 142: our 1 year experience
Author(s) -
Chang Zheng,
Bowsher James,
Cai Jing,
Yoo Sua,
Wang Zhiheng,
Adamson Justus,
Ren Lei,
Yin FangFang
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of applied clinical medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.83
H-Index - 48
ISSN - 1526-9914
DOI - 10.1120/jacmp.v13i4.3754
Subject(s) - image guided radiation therapy , medical physics , linear particle accelerator , task group , nuclear medicine , medical physicist , medicine , medical imaging , radiosurgery , radiation therapy , radiology , physics , engineering , beam (structure) , engineering management , optics
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) task group (TG) 142 has recently published a report to update recommendations of the AAPM TG 40 report and add new recommendations concerning medical accelerators in the era of image‐guided radiation therapy (IGRT). The recommendations of AAPM TG 142 on IGRT are timely. In our institute, we established a comprehensive imaging QA program on a medical accelerator based on AAPM TG 142 and implemented it successfully. In this paper, we share our one‐year experience and performance evaluation of an OBI capable linear accelerator, Novalis Tx, per TG 142 guidelines. PACS numbers: 87.57.‐s, 87.57.C‐, 87.57.uq, 87.59.‐e, 87.59.bd