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Development and Implementation of a Quality Control Program for the Varian TrueBeam® Linear Accelerator

da Silva Sousa, 2021

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10723213356549912353
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da Silva Sousa E
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PQDT-Global

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Quality assurance (QA) aims to ensure that a product or service being evaluated has always the desired quality. In the radiotherapy field, QA is a pivotal process for the health or even the patient's life at risk. A QA protocol in this field mainly applies to the dose delivered to a …
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