EMERALD AND EMIT CONSORTIA

Welcome to EMERALD - Medical Physics Training on demand - Multimedia Version of the EMERALD Student Training Workbooks in Medical Physics... Basic methods in radiotherapy physics Quality assurance of a dosimetric system Calibration of a kilovoltage x-ray beam Calibration of a MVXR beam; Calibration of an electron beam Calibration of an in-vivo detector (see a sample as PDF file) Acquisition of open beam data Acquisition of dose distributions and dose profiles Acquisition of wedged beam data Manual monitor unit and dose calculation for photon and electron beams External beam treatment planning using a computerized system Quality assurance of an orthovoltage unit Quality assurance of a teletherapy unit Quality assurance of a linear accelerator Basic checks of a treatment planning system for external beam therapy Calibration of brachytherapy sources Manual treatment planning using 192 Ir sources for interstitial brachytherapy Manual treatment planning for intracavitary brachytherapy..

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