Failure mode and effects analysis of skin electronic brachytherapy using Esteya® unit

Failure mode and effects analysis of skin electronic brachytherapy using Esteya® unit

PURPOSE A failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) of skin lesions treatment process using Esteya™ device (Elekta Brachyterapy, Veenendaal, The Netherlands) was performed, with the aim of increasing the quality of the treatment and reducing the likelihood of unwanted events. METHODS A multidisciplinary team with experience in the treatment process met to establish the process map, which outlin...

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Using Generalized Mixture Operators

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a method based on teamwork to identify potential failures and problems in a system, design, process and service in order to remove them. The important part of this method is determining the risk priorities of failure modes using the risk priority number (RPN). However, this traditional RPN method has several shortcomings. Therefore, in this paper we p...

Commissioning and periodic tests of the Esteya® electronic brachytherapy system

A new electronic brachytherapy unit from Elekta, called Esteya(®), has recently been introduced to the market. As a part of the standards in radiation oncology, an acceptance testing and commissioning must be performed prior to treatment of the first patient. In addition, a quality assurance program should be implemented. A complete commissioning and periodic testing of the Esteya(®) device usi...

failure mode and effects analysis using data envelopment analysis

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