Arjomandy Bijan, Sahoo Narayan, Zhu X Ronald, Zullo John R, Wu Richard Y, Zhu Mingping, Ding Xiaoning, Martin Craig, Ciangaru George, Gillin Michael T
Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1840 Old Spanish Trail, Houston, Texas 77025, USA.
Med Phys. 2009 Jun;36(6):2269-82. doi: 10.1118/1.3120288.
The number of proton and carbon ion therapy centers is increasing; however, since the publication of the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements report, there has been no dedicated report dealing with proton therapy quality assurance. The purpose of this article is to describe the quality assurance procedures performed on the passively scattered proton therapy beams at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Proton Therapy Center in Houston. The majorities of these procedures are either adopted from procedures outlined in the American Association of Physicists in Medical Task Group (TG) 40 report or are a modified version of the TG 40 procedures. In addition, new procedures, which were designed specifically to be applicable to the synchrotron at the author's center, have been implemented. The authors' procedures were developed and customized to ensure patient safety and accurate operation of synchrotron to within explicit limits. This article describes these procedures and can be used by others as a guideline for developing QA procedures based on particle accelerator specific parameters and local regulations pertinent to any new facility.
质子和碳离子治疗中心的数量在不断增加；然而，自国际辐射单位与测量委员会的报告发布以来，尚未有专门针对质子治疗质量保证的报告。本文的目的是描述在休斯顿德克萨斯大学MD安德森癌症中心质子治疗中心对被动散射质子治疗束所执行的质量保证程序。这些程序大多要么是采用美国医学物理学家协会任务组（TG）40报告中概述的程序，要么是TG 40程序的修改版本。此外，还实施了专门为适用于作者所在中心的同步加速器而设计的新程序。作者的程序是经过开发和定制的，以确保患者安全并使同步加速器在明确的限制范围内准确运行。本文描述了这些程序，可供其他人用作基于粒子加速器特定参数和与任何新设施相关的当地法规制定质量保证程序的指南。
