Prog Med Phys.  2015 Dec;26(4):294-303. 10.14316/pmp.2015.26.4.294.

Suggestion for Comprehensive Quality Assurance of Medical Linear Accelerator in Korea

• Choi SH
• Park DW
• Kim KB
• Kim DW
• Lee J
• Shin DO

• KMID: 2151765
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.14316/pmp.2015.26.4.294

Abstract

American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Published Task Group 40 report which includes recommendations for comprehensive quality assurance (QA) for medical linear accelerator in 1994 and TG-142 report for recommendation for QA which includes procedures such as intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) in 2010. Recently, Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) published NSSC notification no. 2015-005 which is "Technological standards for radiation safety of medical field". This notification regulate to establish guidelines for quality assurance which includes organization and job, devices, methods/frequency/tolerances and action levels for QA, and to implement quality assurance in each medical institution. For this reason, all of these facilities using medical machine for patient treatment should establish items, frequencies and tolerances for proper QA for medical treatment machine that use the techniques such as non-IMRT, IMRT and SRS/SBRT, and perform quality assurance. For domestic, however, there are lack of guidelines and reports of Korean Society of Medical Physicists (KSMP) for reference to establish systematic QA report in medical institutes. This report, therefore, suggested comprehensive quality assurance system such as the scheme of quality assurance system, which is considered for domestic conditions, based the notification of NSSC and AAPM TG-142 reports. We think that the quality assurance system suggested for medical linear accelerator also help establishing QA system for another high-precision radiation treatment machines.

Keyword

Linear accelerator; Quality assurance; NSSC Notification; TG-142

MeSH Terms

Academies and Institutes
Humans
Korea*
Particle Accelerators*
Radiosurgery
Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated

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