COMP Report: CPQR technical quality control guidelines for CyberKnife® Technology

• Published in: Journal of applied clinical medical physics Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 29 - 34
• Main Authors: Vandervoort, Eric, Patrocinio, Horacio, Chow, Tom, Soisson, Emilie, Nadeau, Dominic Béliveau
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.03.2018; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Cancer therapies; Comp Reports and Documents; CyberKnife Radiosurgery System; Dosimetry; Health physics; Physicists; Physics; Preventive maintenance; Quality control; quality control guidelines; Radiation therapy; radiation treatment therapy equipment; robotic radiosurgery; Robotics; stereotactive ablative radiotherapy; stereotactive ablative radiotherapy; CyberKnife Radiosurgery System; radiation treatment therapy equipment; robotic radiosurgery; quality control guidelines
• ISSN: 1526-9914; 1526-9914
• DOI: 10.1002/acm2.12263

The Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP), in close partnership with the Canadian Partnership for Quality Radiotherapy (CPQR) has developed a series of Technical Quality Control (TQC) guidelines for radiation treatment equipment. These guidelines outline the performance objectives that equipment should meet in order to ensure an acceptable level of radiation treatment quality. This particular TQC contains detailed performance objectives and safety criteria for CyberKnife® Technology. The quality control recommendations in this document are based upon previously published guidelines and the collective experience of all Canadian sites using this technology. This TQC guideline has been field tested at the newest Canadian CyberKnife installation site and includes recommendations for quality control of the Iris™ and InCise™ MLC collimation systems.