... variation of the GAI during the three acquisitions was of 1.3%, with a mean variation of 0.7 ± 0.4% This is a confirmation of the stability of the delivery, even in case of small arcs Plots of the ... On-line qualityassuranceof rotational radiotherapy treatment delivery by means of a 2D ion chamber array and the Octavius phantom Med Phys 2007, 34:3825-37 Otto K: Volumetric modulated arc therapy: ... results of the assessment of the apparent PV support arm movement are reported in figure where the displacement of the center of mass of the small field is plotted as a function of the gantry position...
... scientific arguments about qualityassurance as follows: Quality control, qualityassurance and totol quality management are 03 different levels ofquality management The application of this level with ... in each of VTCs, combined with qualityassurance processes as necessary Qualityassurance process should always be started from the internal qualityassurance The design and make qualityassurance ... efficiencies of processes, internal qualityassurance mechanisms of public VTCs Self-assessment is considered to be a chain ofqualityassurance processes As a quality management level, contents of internal...
... Nine of 35 (25.7%) patients had an average of 1.6 additional films over a period In this qualityassurance survey, we observed in our medical patients that 22% of all routine CXRs, and 40% of nonroutine ... evaluate their utility in our medical–surgical ICU as part of a qualityassurance survey The goals of this study were to determine the percentage of routine and non-routine radiographs that change management ... or the NGT The balance of these changes (42.0%) led to a change in clinical management, specifically the treatment of CHF, the addition of antibiotics, the performance of bronchoscopy, or a change...
... pretreatment qualityassurance are to assure the precision of the IMRT treatment plan and the application of the prescribed dose from the plan [13] As a consequence of the complexity of the IMRT ... measurements of high-energy photon beams The 2D-ARRAY chamber is calibrated using a setup of 10 cm x10 cm field size, 100 MU, 10 MV beams at a depth of 10 cm, and a dose rate of 300 cGy/MU In favor of ... most malignant form of brain tumor, with a poor prognosis and low life expectancy [21] Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is a new development ofconformal radiotherapy which shows...
... and improve the qualityof its education and other activities Qualityassurance system The concept ofqualityassurance system’ (QA system) includes both quality man agement and quality enhancement ... ways: it may refer to the qualityassurance system of an individual HEI or to the national system for assuring’the qualityof higher education The qualityassurance system of a HEI re fers to the ... European principles in the qualityassuranceof Finnish HEIs For the European guidelines and recommendations ofqualityassurance in “Standards and Guidelines for QualityAssurance in the European Higher...
... provision of higher-education programmes of good quality within developing countries is a solution to building the capacity of the health care workforce in these countries [7-9] Measures ofqualityof ... enable qualityassurance principles to be implemented in resource-limited settings The aim of this handbook was to provide a short, simple and jargon-free set of principles on qualityassurance ... documents from the QualityAssurance Agency and the University of Liverpool's Teaching Quality Support Division web sites [15,17] We also reviewed documents that focused on qualityassurance strategies...
... There can be a significant loss ofqualityof vegetable products in the supply chain, especially in retail There are significant opportunities to improve the qualityof produce reaching consumers ... qualityof produce reaching the consumer and in food safety Food safety improvements have been achieved through a reduction in microbial contamination of food as well as through measurement of ... future will be for these supermarkets to introduce quality standards and then buy high quality, clean produce direct from farmers who meet the QualityAssurance (QA requirements) This project will...
... management and qualityassurance systems Executive Summary Project CARD-004/04 VIE “Improving the safety and qualityof Vietnamese vegetables” commenced in September 2005 The overall objective of this ... losses and to utilise qualityassurance principles Objectives of this project are as follows: Facilitate the wider implementation and adoption of protected cropping systems of low to medium technology ... utilise qualityassurance principles to implement targeted system improvements; Enhance Vietnamese R&D capacity in the areas of protected cropping systems, postharvest management and quality assurance...
... utilise qualityassurance principles to implement targeted system improvements; Enhance Vietnamese R&D capacity in the areas of protected cropping systems, postharvest management and qualityassurance ... Institute of Fruit and Vegetables with Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry and the Institute of Agricultural Sciences for South Vietnam as the Vietnamese project partners NSW Department of Primary ... Institute Information Project Name Improving the safety and qualityof Vietnamese vegetables through research and capacity building in quality assurance, postharvest management and high technology...
... utilise qualityassurance principles to implement targeted system improvements; Enhance Vietnamese R&D capacity in the areas of protected cropping systems, postharvest management and qualityassurance ... Trang, QualityAssurance Manager) was that Metro is still having difficulty sourcing sufficient quantities of product that meets their quality specifications They are also still in the process of ... One of the focuses of the current set of trials is to compare field and greenhouse/nethouse production A number of the demonstration trials will take place on farm, facilitating greater uptake of...
... in methods of strain selection and qualityassuranceof strains in biofertilisers Field training of villagers, particularly women, in methods of biofertiliser production and the use of simple ... related to qualityassuranceof starter culture strains of bacteria for biofertiliser inoculants used in paddy rice production in Vietnam Similar qualityassurance is required for biofertilisers produced ... techniques of biofertiliser production and qualityassurance 4 Training by technologists instructing village women and others in biofertiliser production, sampling for simple tests ofquality and...
... training; a report on outcomes of discussions will be available within weeks of the scheduled meeting on qualityassurance Success beyond the project in implementing qualityassurance in Vietnam will ... Table 1: Heavy metal analysis of eight samples of compressed coir bricks of different origin * - limits of detection) The Mekong company currently produces a range of coir finished products for ... industries Some quality characteristics beyond the specification for size and shape of the products would include issues of uniformity in the size of fibres and assuring low concentrations of salt contaminants...
... tumor sites must be irradiated List of abbreviation ASTRO: Americal Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology; CRT: Conformal Radiation Therapy; CT: Chemotherapy; CTV: Clinical Target Volume; ... Elective radiotherapy with intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) technique in the treatment of pelvic lymph nodes and primary tumor region Analysis of acute toxicity Procedings of the 49th ... this article as: Ferrigno et al.: Comparison ofconformal and intensity modulated radiation therapy techniques for treatment of pelvic tumors Analysis of acute toxicity Radiation Oncology 2010 5:117...
... Morganti AG: 3D -Conformal versus intensity- modulated postoperative radiotherapy of vaginal vault: a dosimetric comparison Med Dosm 2010, 35:135-142 Palta JR, Liu C, Li JG: Qualityassuranceof intensity ... others [10,12,13] Patient-specific IMRT qualityassurance is one of essential tasks to ensure accurate dose delivery to the patient [14-17] It often consists of measuring point doses and 2D dose ... be achieved Pawlicki and co-workers [19,20] have reported on the use of control charts for radiotherapy qualityassuranceof linear accelerators using both hypothetical and clinical data Breen...
... inter-centre qualityassurance network for IMRT verification: results of the ESTRO QUASIMODO project Radiother Oncol 2005, 76:340-353 17 Palta J, Liu C, Li J: Qualityassuranceof intensity-modulated ... decade, a lot of centers in the world are starting this technology The goal of this paper is to provide an important number of measurements and to develop the understanding of the results quality depending ... Yan D: Evaluation of a 2D diode array for IMRT qualityassurance Radiother Oncol 2004, 70:199-206 13 Working I: Intensity-modulated radiotherapy: current status and issues of interest Int J Radiat...
... details of the equipment to be used Appropriate qualityassurance systems should also be implemented A comprehensive overview ofqualityassurance issues can be found in a special edition about quality ... models, a standard fractionation schedule of fractions of 20 Gy or fractions of 18 Gy and a conservative fractionation schedule of fractions of 12 Gy or fractions of 11 Gy could be allowed For type ... Discussion The ROSEL trial QualityAssurance Working Party in this article has tried to present a broad overview of all the technical aspects of stereotactic radiotherapy for early stage lung...
... FY, Skinner O: The influence of radiation therapyquality control on survival, response and sites of relapse in oat cell carcinoma of the lung: preliminary report of a Southwest Oncology Group ... Safran H, Hoffman JP, Konski AA, Benson AB, Macdonald JS, Rich TA, Willett CG: RTOG 9704 – Radiotherapy qualityassurance (QA) review and survival Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the American ... Eich HT: The development ofqualityassurance programs for radiotherapy within the German Hodgkin Study Group (GHSG) Introduction, continuing work, and results of the radiotherapy reference panel...
... in three out of four ambulance records and in nine out of ten air ambulance records Similarly, the Office of the Auditor General of Norway reviewed 14 EMCCs and found documentation of patient encounter ... and qualityof EMS documentation of key logistic, Staff and Søvik Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011, 19:20 http://www.sjtrem.com/content/19/1/20 Page of ... terms of its usefulness for trauma research, we assessed the documentation rate of exact values and of RTS categories (0 - 4) of GCS score, RR, and SBP We found that a considerable fraction of ambulance...