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Autor:
Peter Dunscombe, Joanna Izewska, Ioannis Vouldis, Mary Coffey, Pierre Scalliet, Eduardo Zubizarreta, T. Santos
Publikováno v:
Radiotherapy and Oncology. 126:183-190
Background and purpose The IAEA has developed a methodology for comprehensive quality audits of radiotherapy practices called Quality Assurance Team for Radiation Oncology (QUATRO). This study explores the factors that impacted quality of care among
Autor:
Eve-Lyne Marchand, Crystal Angers, Jean-Pierre Bissonnette, Michael Brundage, Kathryn Moran, Matthew Parliament, Peter Dunscombe, Spencer Ross, Krista Louie, Michael Milosevic, Tony Panzarella, Gunita Mitera, Erika Brown, Brian Liszewski, Jordan Hunt, Haiyan Jiang, C. Suzanne Drodge
Publikováno v:
Practical Radiation Oncology. 6:334-341
Purpose Incident investigation, reporting, and learning are core elements of quality improvement in radiation treatment. This report describes the development of a Canadian National System for Incident Reporting in Radiation Treatment (NSIR-RT), focu
Autor:
Peter Dunscombe, Geoffrey S. Ibbott, Jeffrey F. Williamson, Sasa Mutic, M. Saiful Huq, Bruce R. Thomadsen, Jatinder R. Palta, Arno J. Mundt, John P. Gibbons, Frank Rath, Ellen Yorke, Benedick A. Fraass
Publikováno v:
Medical Physics. 43:4209-4262
The increasing complexity of modern radiation therapy planning and delivery challenges traditional prescriptive quality management (QM) methods, such as many of those included in guidelines published by organizations such as the AAPM, ASTRO, ACR, EST
Autor:
Rao Khan, Peter Dunscombe
Publikováno v:
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
Over the last two decades, there has been a concerted effort in North America to organize medical physicists’ clinical training programs along more structured and formal lines. This effort has been prompted by the Commission on Accreditation of Med
Autor:
Noémie Defourny, Peter Dunscombe, Chiara Gasparotto, Yolande Lievens, Cai Grau, Josep M. Borràs
Publikováno v:
Lievens, Y, Dunscombe, P, Defourny, N, Gasparotto, C, Borras, J M & Grau, C 2015, ' HERO (Health Economics in Radiation Oncology): A Pan-European Project on Radiotherapy Resources and Needs ', Clinical Oncology, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 115-24 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clon.2014.10.010
Radiotherapy continues to evolve at a rapid rate in technology and techniques, with both driving up costs in an era in which health care budgets are of increasing concern at every governmental level. Against this background, it is clear that the radi
Publikováno v:
Medical physics. 39(7Part2)
To demonstrate the dosimetric effects of observer variability in defining the prostate and critical organs, using Tissue Harmonic (H) ultrasound imaging mode for permanent seed implant brachytherapy.Images were acquired using a B -K medical 8848 prob
Autor:
A Rangel, Peter Dunscombe
Publikováno v:
Medical physics. 35(7Part2)
The Multileaf Collimator (MLC), the most widely used means of intensity modulating beams for IMRT, is subject to random and systematic errors in leaf positions that may compromise the treatment quality. This work is a simulation study of the effect o
Publikováno v:
Physica Medica. 30:662-668
Quality ultrasound images are an essential part of prostate brachytherapy procedure. The authors have previously reported that tissue harmonic ultrasound images (THI) are superior to brightness (B) mode for the prostate. The objective of the current
Publikováno v:
Practical Radiation Oncology. 4:e45-e51
Purpose The objective of this study is to investigate the influence of tumor size, location, and patient characteristics on the intrafractional target shift in lung stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). Methods and Materials Sixty-nine stage I
Autor:
Yolande Lievens, J.M. Borras, Noémie Defourny, J. Corra, Chiara Gasparotto, Cai Grau, J. Van Loon, Lionel Perrier, Peter Dunscombe, Mary Coffey
Publikováno v:
Radiotherapy and Oncology. 127:S29-S30