title: [Development of quality assurance/quality control web system in radiotherapy].
abstract: Our purpose is to develop a QA/QC (quality assurance/quality control) web system using a server-side script language such as HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), which can be useful as a tool to share information about QA/QC in radiotherapy. The system proposed in this study can be easily built in one's own institute, because HTML can be easily handled. There are two desired functions in a QA/QC web system: (i) To review the results of QA/QC for a radiotherapy machine, manuals, and reports necessary for routinely performing radiotherapy through this system. By disclosing the results, transparency can be maintained, (ii) To reveal a protocol for QA/QC in one's own institute using pictures and movies relating to QA/QC for simplicity's sake, which can also be used as an educational tool for junior radiation technologists and medical physicists. By using this system, not only administrators, but also all staff involved in radiotherapy, can obtain information about the conditions and accuracy of treatment machines through the QA/QC web system.
authors.affiliation: Radiation Oncology Division, National Cancer Center Hospital.
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Okamoto
authors.forename: Toshihiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mochizuki
authors.forename: Kazutoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yokoyama
authors.forename: Akihisa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wakita
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Heihachi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ueki
authors.forename: Keiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shiozawa
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: Masashi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fuse
authors.forename: Yoshihisa
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Itami
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D011786:Quality Control; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D011880:Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted