Quality and Safety in Radiotherapy, Learning the New Approaches in Task Group 100 and Beyond (Medical Physics Monograph)

Medical Physics Monograph #36 was written for the 2013 AAPM Summer School in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Task Group 100 examined quality and safety techniques that have proven effective in industry and, more recently, in many medical disciplines. These techniques consider not only QA for equipment, but also for procedures as a whole in the context of the facility. These approaches and methodologies may be new and somewhat daunting to many practicing medical physicists. The goal of this book is to make these new techniques accessible to the broader medical physics community.

The text features practice exercises that reinforce the concepts learned in the book. It also includes a CD containing the text, large tables, and many of the book s images in color.