Abstract
A multidisciplinery Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) task force has developed quality assurance guidelines for radiosurgery. The purpose of the guidelines are fourfold: (1) To ensure that participating institutions have the proper equipment and appropriate technique(s) to administer radiosurgery; (2) to outline a standard data set for each treated patient to assess protocol compliance; (3) to define minor and major deviations in protocol treatment; and (4) to set forth clinical data necessary to determine treatment efficacy, including failure patterns, and treatment toxicity. These guidelines are being implemented into active and developing radiosurgery protocols.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1231-1239 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 1 1993 |
Keywords
- Gamma knife
- Linear accelerator
- Quality assurance
- Radiosurgery
- Stereotactic
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Radiation
- Oncology
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
- Cancer Research