The technical aspects of quality assurance (QA) in radiation oncology as practice in the United States will be reviewed and updated in the spirit of offering the experience to the radiation oncology communities in the Asia-Pacific region. The word "technical" is used to express the organisational components or processes and not the materials within the QA program. A comprehensive QA program in ...

Quality assurance in the technical documentation and translation process is a means of assuring both quality as a process and quality documents as a result of any quality processes implemented. The willingness to improve quality is the common desire of commerce partners and a project team co-operating in the production of a quality assurance manual, which is the topic to be discussed in this pa...

INTRODUCTION The technical and quality aspects of organ culture as a storage method for human donor corneas are described. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data electronically stored since 1989 of > 41,000 corneas, processed in the Cornea Bank Amsterdam, are analysed. The technical information of eye banks collected in the Directory of the European Eye Bank Association (EEBA) is used as comparison. Euro...

Background – enraged software users to form a new political party? In his Circuits column of February 28, 2002, David Pogue of The New York Times reported about the several hundred emails he had received in response to an earlier column about "Lousy tech support". He quotes 12 of them, enraged users who testify about: simple tasks that fail, online help that does not help, online help numbers t...

This paper presents a technical review of power quality problems associated with the renewable based distributed generation systems and how custom power devices (CPD) such as STATCOM, DVR and UPQC play an important role in power quality improvement. IEEE and IEC standards for grid connected renewable energy systems are one of the critical points of interest for the selection of custom power dev...

Database normalization is the one of main principles for designing relational databases. The benefits of normalization can be observed through improving data quality and performance, among the other qualities. We explore a new context of technical debt manifestation, which is linked to ill-normalized databases. This debt can have long-term impact causing systematic degradation of database quali...

The importance of laboratories cannot be gainsaid as far as the health of any country is concerned. This is especially considering that laboratories have a bearing on the accuracy of research carried out on varied ailments, as well as the effectiveness of any remedial substance. Of course, there are numerous categories of laboratories with histology laboratories coming as some of the most funda...

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. The ...

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...