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      AAPM Task Group 103 report on peer review in clinical radiation oncology physics

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          This report provides guidelines for a peer review process between two clinical radiation oncology physicists. While the Task Group's work was primarily focused on ensuring timely and productive independent reviews for physicists in solo practice, these guidelines may also be appropriate for physicists in a group setting, particularly when dispersed over multiple separate clinic locations. To ensure that such reviews enable a collegial exchange of professional ideas and productive critique of the entire clinical physics program, the reviews should not be used as an employee evaluation instrument by the employer. Such use is neither intended nor supported by this Task Group. Detailed guidelines are presented on the minimum content of such reviews, as well as a recommended format for reporting the findings of a review. In consideration of the full schedules faced by most clinical physicists, the process outlined herein was designed to be completed in one working day.

          PACS numbers: 87.53.Xd, 87.90.+y

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          Comprehensive QA for radiation oncology: report of AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group 40.

          G J Kutcher, L. Coia, M Gillin … (1994)
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            American Association of Physicists in Medicine Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group 53: quality assurance for clinical radiotherapy treatment planning.

            B Fraass, K. Doppke, M. Hunt … (1998)
            In recent years, the sophistication and complexity of clinical treatment planning and treatment planning systems has increased significantly, particularly including three-dimensional (3D) treatment planning systems, and the use of conformal treatment planning and delivery techniques. This has led to the need for a comprehensive set of quality assurance (QA) guidelines that can be applied to clinical treatment planning. This document is the report of Task Group 53 of the Radiation Therapy Committee of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. The purpose of this report is to guide and assist the clinical medical physicist in developing and implementing a comprehensive but viable program of quality assurance for modern radiotherapy treatment planning. The scope of the QA needs for treatment planning is quite broad, encompassing image-based definition of patient anatomy, 3D beam descriptions for complex beams including multileaf collimator apertures, 3D dose calculation algorithms, and complex plan evaluation tools including dose volume histograms. The Task Group recommends an organizational framework for the task of creating a QA program which is individualized to the needs of each institution and addresses the issues of acceptance testing, commissioning the planning system and planning process, routine quality assurance, and ongoing QA of the planning process. This report, while not prescribing specific QA tests, provides the framework and guidance to allow radiation oncology physicists to design comprehensive and practical treatment planning QA programs for their clinics.
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              Update of AAPM Task Group No. 43 Report: A revised AAPM protocol for brachytherapy dose calculations.

              Geoffrey Ibbott, Jeffrey Williamson, Lekshmi Nath … (2004)
              Since publication of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Task Group No. 43 Report in 1995 (TG-43), both the utilization of permanent source implantation and the number of low-energy interstitial brachytherapy source models commercially available have dramatically increased. In addition, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has introduced a new primary standard of air-kerma strength, and the brachytherapy dosimetry literature has grown substantially, documenting both improved dosimetry methodologies and dosimetric characterization of particular source models. In response to these advances, the AAPM Low-energy Interstitial Brachytherapy Dosimetry subcommittee (LIBD) herein presents an update of the TG-43 protocol for calculation of dose-rate distributions around photon-emitting brachytherapy sources. The updated protocol (TG-43U1) includes (a) a revised definition of air-kerma strength; (b) elimination of apparent activity for specification of source strength; (c) elimination of the anisotropy constant in favor of the distance-dependent one-dimensional anisotropy function; (d) guidance on extrapolating tabulated TG-43 parameters to longer and shorter distances; and (e) correction for minor inconsistencies and omissions in the original protocol and its implementation. Among the corrections are consistent guidelines for use of point- and line-source geometry functions. In addition, this report recommends a unified approach to comparing reference dose distributions derived from different investigators to develop a single critically evaluated consensus dataset as well as guidelines for performing and describing future theoretical and experimental single-source dosimetry studies. Finally, the report includes consensus datasets, in the form of dose-rate constants, radial dose functions, and one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) anisotropy functions, for all low-energy brachytherapy source models that met the AAPM dosimetric prerequisites [Med. Phys. 25, 2269 (1998)] as of July 15, 2001. These include the following 125I sources: Amersham Health models 6702 and 6711, Best Medical model 2301, North American Scientific Inc. (NASI) model MED3631-A/M, Bebig/Theragenics model I25.S06, and the Imagyn Medical Technologies Inc. isostar model IS-12501. The 103Pd sources included are the Theragenics Corporation model 200 and NASI model MED3633. The AAPM recommends that the revised dose-calculation protocol and revised source-specific dose-rate distributions be adopted by all end users for clinical treatment planning of low energy brachytherapy interstitial sources. Depending upon the dose-calculation protocol and parameters currently used by individual physicists, adoption of this protocol may result in changes to patient dose calculations. These changes should be carefully evaluated and reviewed with the radiation oncologist preceding implementation of the current protocol.
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                Contributors
                Per H. Halvorsen: per@halvorsen.name
                Indra J. Das: das@xrt.upenn.edu
                Martin Fraser: mfraser@chem-center.com
                D. Jay Freedman: dfreedm@harthosp.org
                Robert E. Rice III: rrice@harthosp.org
                Geoffrey S. Ibbott: gibbott@mdanderson.org
                E. Ishmael Parsai: eparsai@meduohio.edu
                T. Tydings Robin Jr.: robinty@mindspring.com
                Bruce R. Thomadsen: thomadsen@humonc.wisc.edu
                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Appl Clin Med Phys
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J Appl Clin Med Phys
                Journal ID (doi): 10.1002/(ISSN)1526-9914
                Journal ID (publisher-id): ACM2
                Title: Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
                Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc. (Hoboken )
                ISSN (Electronic): 1526-9914
                Publication date (Electronic): 22 November 2005
                Publication date Collection: Fall 2005
                Volume: 6
                Issue: 4 ( doiID: 10.1002/acm2.2005.6.issue-4 )
                Pages: 50-64
                Affiliations
                [ 1 ] Department of Radiation Oncology Middlesex Hospital 536 Saybrook Road Middletown Connecticut 06457
                [ 2 ] Department of Radiation Oncology University of Pennsylvania 3400 Spruce Street Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19104
                [ 3 ] CHEM Center for Radiation Oncology 48 Montvale Avenue Stoneham Massachusetts 02180
                [ 4 ] Department of Medical Physics Hartford Hospital 80 Seymour Street Hartford Connecticut 06102
                [ 5 ] Radiological Physics Center Department of Radiation Physics University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center 1515 Holcombe Boulevard Houston Texas 77030
                [ 6 ] Department of Radiation Oncology Medical University of Ohio 3000 Arlington Avenue Toledo Ohio 43614
                [ 7 ] Theragenics Corporation®, Consultant 4524 Pine Mountain Road Birmingham Alabama 35213
                [ 8 ] Departments of Medical Physics and Human Oncology University of Wisconsin 1530 Medical Sciences Center Madison Wisconsin 53706 U.S.A.
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                Publisher ID: ACM20050
                DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v6i4.2142
                PMC ID: 5723459
                PubMed ID: 16421500
                SO-VID: 09d774ee-2ed6-4b29-ba1e-65e7c6f87c06
                Copyright © © 2005 The Authors.
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                This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

                History
                Date received : 16 May 2005
                Date accepted : 22 July 2005
                Page count
                Figures: 7, Tables: 0, References: 19, Pages: 15, Words: 4384
                Categories
                Subject: Radiation Oncology Physics
                Subject: Radiation Oncology Physics
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                cover-date Fall 2005
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                Keywords: radiation oncology physics,peer review,quality assurance
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