Tomotherapy is an image-guided, intensity-modulated radiation therapy system that delivers highly conformal dose distributions in a helical fashion. This system is also capable of acquiring megavoltage computed-tomography images and registering them to the planning kVCT images for accurate target localization. Quality assurance (QA) of this device is time intensive, but can be expedited by impr...

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Quality assurance in medical services has become a more and more important issue. In order to achieve reliable results of DNA image cytometry as described and discussed in detail in the first part of this report [2], the conditions for reproducible preparation, measurement and interpretation have to be worked out, carefully followed and checked at various steps of the process in certain time in...

Quality assurance (QA) is an important task in manufacturing to assess whether products meet their specifications. However, QA might be expensive, time-consuming, or incomplete. This paper presents a solution for predictive analytics based on machine sensor values during production while employing specialized machine-learning models classification controlled environment. Furthermore, we present...

The Quality Control (QC) routine performance tests of the fluoroscopy equipment are an irreversible element of the Quality Assurance (QA) and Patient Protection (PP) system. The results from these tests may be helpful in identifying and quantifying: changes in system performance due to component failure or drift, programmed changes in system performance due to upgrades software, a new spectral ...

We introduce the Fortunate Artists Media Empire (FAME) problem domain to study approaches for solving key challenges in distributed planning such as dynamic environments, dynamic goals, uncertainty of actions and scalability. FAME is an artificial problem domain that allows us to focus on key domain-independent research issues. The FAME problem domain is focused on broadcast quality monitoring ...

Abstract Representativeness and quality of collected meteorological data impact accuracy precision climate, hydrological, biogeochemical analyses predictions. We developed a comprehensive Quality Assurance (QA) Control (QC) statistical framework, consisting three major phases: Phase I—Preliminary exploration, i.e., processing raw datasets, with the challenging problems time formatting combining...

Introduction. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s National Tuberculosis Surveillance System (NTSS) is the national repository of tuberculosis (TB) data in the United States. Jurisdictions report to NTSS through the Report of Verified Case of Tuberculosis (RVCT) form that transitioned to a web-based system in 2009. Materials and Methods. To improve RVCT data quality, CDC condu...

Task Group 154 (TG154) of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) was created to produce a guidance document for clinical medical physicists describing recommended quality assurance (QA) procedures for ultrasound (U.S.)-guided external beam radiotherapy localization. This report describes the relevant literature, state of the art, and briefly summarizes U.S. imaging physics. S...

The deep mixing method (DMM), an in situ soil stabilization technique, was developed Japan and Nordic countries the 1970s has gained increased popularity many countries. quality of stabilized depends upon factors, including its type condition, amount binder, production process. Quality control assurance (QC/QA) practices focus on soil, comprises laboratory mix tests, field trial monitoring cont...