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      COMP report: CPQR technical quality control guidelines for low‐dose‐rate permanent seed brachytherapy

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          The Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists ( COMP), in close partnership with the Canadian Partnership for Quality Radiotherapy ( CPQR) has developed a series of Technical Quality Control ( TQC) guidelines for radiation treatment equipment. These guidelines outline the performance objectives that equipment should meet in order to ensure an acceptable level of radiation treatment quality. The TQC guidelines have been rigorously reviewed and field tested in a variety of Canadian radiation treatment facilities. The development process enables rapid review and update to keep the guidelines current with changes in technology. This article contains detailed performance objectives and safety criteria for low‐dose‐rate ( LDR) permanent seed brachytherapy.

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            American Association of Physicists in Medicine Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group 53: quality assurance for clinical radiotherapy treatment planning.

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            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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              Dosimetry of interstitial brachytherapy sources: recommendations of the AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group No. 43. American Association of Physicists in Medicine.

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                Luc Beaulieu: beaulieu@phy.ulaval.ca
                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): 14 March 2018
                Publication date Collection: May 2018
                Volume: 19
                Issue: 3 ( doiID: 10.1002/acm2.2018.19.issue-3 )
                Pages: 13-18
                Affiliations
                [ 1 ] Department of Physics Université Laval Cancer Research Centre Quebec QC Canada
                [ 2 ] Department of Radiation Oncology CRCHU de Québec CHU de Québec – Université Laval Ville de Québec QC Canada
                [ 3 ] Department of Oncology University of Calgary Calgary AB Canada
                [ 4 ] Department of Medical Physics Tom Baker Cancer Centre Calgary AB Canada
                Author notes
                [*] [* ] Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Luc Beaulieu

                E‐mail: beaulieu@ 123456phy.ulaval.ca

                Telephone: (418) 252 4444 extension 15315

                Article
                Publisher ID: ACM212307
                DOI: 10.1002/acm2.12307
                PMC ID: 5978974
                PubMed ID: 29542269
                SO-VID: 660beeae-6315-4f1e-9050-658f7d0c842c
                Copyright © © 2018 The Authors. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
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                This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

                History
                Date received : 04 August 2017
                Date revision received : 04 January 2018
                Date accepted : 06 February 2018
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 2, Pages: 6, Words: 4885
                Categories
                Subject: 87.53.Jw
                Subject: 87.55.Qr
                Subject: 87.56.bg
                Subject: Comp Reports and Documents
                Subject: Comp Reports and Documents
                Custom metadata
                source-schema-version-number 2.0
                component-id acm212307
                cover-date May 2018
                details-of-publishers-convertor Converter:WILEY_ML3GV2_TO_NLMPMC version:version=5.4.0 mode:remove_FC converted:31.05.2018

                Keywords: brachytherapy,low‐dose‐rate,quality control,seed implants
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                Keywords: brachytherapy, low‐dose‐rate, quality control, seed implants

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