Practical experience in electromagnetic hyperthermia quality control procedures within the context of international guidelines.
Recent international guidelines on hyperthermia (HT) quality assurance have pointed out the necessity of defining standard operative procedures and technical checks to guarantee an accurate performance of HT treatments. In the present paper, experience is described of quality control procedures that are performed in agreement with the more general guidelines concerning thermometry, sensor positioning, phantoms, applicator characterisation, and electromagnetic (EM) radiation leakage. This practical experience comes from the use of equipment for superficial and loco-regional HT working in the range 13.56-915 MHz.
Di Nallo
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AM
Medical Physics and Expert Systems Laboratory, Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy.
Begnozzi
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L
Lovisolo
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GA
Benassi
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M
D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D006979:Hyperthermia, Induced / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000592:standards*; D008961:Models, Structural; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D011786:Quality Control