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Code of practice for brachytherapy physics: Report of the AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group No. 56
Medical Physics · 1997 · Vol. 24(10) · pp. 1557–1598
Ravinder Nath✉(Yale University)Lowell L. Anderson(Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)Jerome A. Meli(St. Vincent's Medical Center)Arthur J. Olch(Los Angeles Medical Center)Judith A. Stitt(University of Wisconsin–Madison)Jeffrey F. Williamson(Mallinckrodt (United States))
Abstract
Recommendations of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) for the practice of brachytherapy physics are presented. These guidelines were prepared by a task group of the AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee and have been reviewed and approved by the AAPM Science Council.
Advanced Radiotherapy TechniquesRadiation Dose and ImagingAdvances in Oncology and RadiotherapyTask groupMedical physicsBrachytherapyMedical physicistCode of practiceDosimetryMedicineNuclear medicineRadiation therapyTask force
MeSH terms
BiophysicsBrachytherapyEquipment DesignHumansNeoplasmsQuality Assurance, Health CareRadiometryRadiotherapy Planning, Computer-AssistedSafetyRadiation Oncology
Funding
- Yale University
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528
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