title: Imaging system QA of a medical accelerator, Novalis Tx, for IGRT per TG 142: our 1 year experience.
abstract: 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.
authors: Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, 200 Trent Drive, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA. zheng.chang@duke.edu
authors: Zheng
authors: Z
authors: Chang
authors: James
authors: J
authors: Bowsher
authors: Jing
authors: J
authors: Cai
authors: Sua
authors: S
authors: Yoo
authors: Zhiheng
authors: Z
authors: Wang
authors: Justus
authors: J
authors: Adamson
authors: Lei
authors: L
authors: Ren
authors: Fang-Fang
authors: FF
authors: Yin
mesh_terms: D002138:Calibration; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D010315:Particle Accelerators / Q000592:standards*; D011786:Quality Control; D011880:Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted; D061089:Radiotherapy, Image-Guided / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods