IROC Houston QA Center Publications

 

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·        Technical Report #18: Information That should be Included in Every Patient's Radiotherapy Record (External Beam)
(Medical Dosimetry 15:131-132, 1990.)
Hanson WF, Shalek RJ, Kirby TH, Kennedy PM:

·        The Intergroup Hodgkin's Disease in Children Study of Stages I and II
(Cancer 65:1429-1437, 1990.)
Gehan EA, et al (including Kennedy P and Hanson WF).

·        Workshop of the EORTC Radiotherapy Group on Quality Assurance in Cooperative Trials of Radiotherapy:   A Recommendation for EORTC Cooperative Groups.
(Radiotherapy and Oncology, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp:201-203, March 1988.)
Johansson K.-A., Hanson WF, Horiot JC.

·        Contamination of Ionization Chambers by Talcum Powder
(Medical Physics, Volume 15, Issue 5, pp:776-777, September 1988.)
Hanson WF, Arnold DJ, Shalek RJ, Humphries LJ.

·        Verification of Total Body Photon Irradiation Techniques
(Medical Physics, Volume 15, Issue 3, pp:364-369, May 1988 .)
Kirby TH, Hanson WF, Cates DA.

·        A Comparison of the AAPM Task Group 21 with SCRAD and ICRU #21
(AAPM Summer School, Oxford, OH, 1986.)
Hanson WF:

·        Radiotherapy Quality Assurance in Cooperative Clinical Trials
(AAPM Summer School, Oxford, OH, 1986.)
Hanson WF:

·        Understanding the AAPM Task Group 21 Calibration Protocol for Photons and Electrons
(AAPM Summer School, Oxford, OH, 1986.)
Hanson WF.

·        Cylindrical chamber dimensions and the corresponding values of A_wall and N_gas/(N_XA_ion)
(Medical Physics, Volume 13, Issue 5, pp:751-754,September 1986.)
Gastorf RJ, Humphries LJ, Rozenfeld M:

·        Mailable TLD System for Photon and Electron Therapy Beams
(International Journal Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 12:261-265, 1985.)
Kirby TH, Hanson WF, Gastorf RJ, Chu CH, Shalek RJ:

·        Electron beam central axis depth dose measurements
(Medical Physics, Volume 12, Issue 3, pp:357-361, May 1985.)
Kirby TH, Gastorf RJ, Hanson WF, Berkley LW, Gagnon WF, Hazel JH, Shalek RJ.

·        Effects of plastic protective caps on the calibration of therapy beams in water
(Medical Physics, Volume 12, Issue 2, pp:243-248 , March 1985.)
Hanson WF, Dominguez Tinoco JA.

·        Radiation Physics and Radiotherapy.
(Proceedings of the American Cancer Society National Conference on Radiation Oncology, San Francisco, CA, 1984.)
Shalek RJ, Jones D.

·        The implementation of the AAPM Task Group 21 protocol by the Radiological Physics Center and its implications
(Medical Physics, Volume 11, Issue 4, pp:547-551 , July 1984.)
Gastorf RJ, Hanson WF, Shalek RJ, Berkley LW.

·        A Comparison of High-Energy Accelerator Depth Dose Data
(Medical Physics, Volume 10, Issue 6, pp:881-885, November 1983.
Robert J. Gastorf, William F. Hanson, Thomas H. Kirby, Robert J. Shalek, Lawrence W. Berkley, and Connel Chu

·        The Changing Role of Accelerators in Radiation Therapy
(Proceedings of the 1978 conference on Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, Denton, Texas, November 8-10, 1982.   IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.).
Hanson WF.

·        The Influence of Radiation Therapy Quality Control on Survival, Response and Sites of Relapse in Oat Cell Carcinoma of the Lung.
(Cancer 50:6, 1982.)
White JE, Chen T, McCracken J, Kennedy P, Seydel HG, Hartman G, Mier J, Khan M, Durrnce FY, Skinner O.

·        Intergroup Hodgkin's Disease in Children Study of Stages I and II:  A Preliminary Report.  (Cancer Treatment Reports 66:937-947, 1982.)
Sullivan MP, Fuller LM, Chen T, Fisher R, Gryer C, Gehan E, Gilchrist GS, Hays D, Hanson WF, Heller R, Higgins G, Jenkin D, Kung F, Sheehan W, Tefft M, Ternbert J, Wharham M.

·        The American Association of Physicists in Medicine Regional Calibration Laboratory System.  (Proceedings of the National Bureau of Standards Symposium on Traceability for Ionizing Radiation Measurements.   May 8-9, 1980.)
Shalek RJ, Humphries LH, Hanson WF.

·        Buildup region and skin-dose measurements for the Therac 6 Linear Accelerator for radiation therapy
(Medical Physics, Volume 8, Issue 3, pp:378-381, May 1981.)
Tannous NBJ, Gagnon WF, Almond PR.

·        A Review of the Discrepancy Between the In-Air and In-Water Calibration of Cobalt-60 Machines
(Medical Physics, Volume 7, Issue 5, pp:520-524, September 1980.)
Berkley LW, Gagnon WF, Hanson WF, Weaver KA, Shalek RJ.

·        Findings from NSABP Protocol No. B-04; Comparison of Radical Mastectomy with Alternative Treatments for Primary Breast Cancer I. Radiation Compliance and its Relation to Treatment Outcome
(Cancer 46:1-3, 1980.)
Fisher B, Montague E, Redmond C, Deutsch M, Brown GR, Zauber A, Hanson WF, Wong A.

·        Dose Enhancement from Backscattered Radiation at Tissue-Metal Interfaces Irradiated with High Energy Electrons
(Medical Physics 5:347, 1978.)
Gagnon WF and Cundiff JH.

·        Discussion of the Results of Measurements with a Portable Well Ionization Chamber for Calibration of Brachytherapy Sources.
(Proceedings of the 1979 Workshop:   Recent Advances in Brachytherapy Physics.   New England Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, October 5-6, 1979.   AAPM Monograph #7 Recent Advances in Brachytherapy Physics, 1981.)
Berkley LW, Hanson WF, Shalek RJ.

·        Calculative Technique to Correct for the Change in Linear Accelerator Beam Energy at Off-Axis Points
(Medical Physics, Volume 7, Issue 2, pp:147-150, March 1980.)
Hanson WF, Berkley LW, Peterson MD.

·        Off-Axis Beam Quality Change in Linear Accelerator X-ray Beams
(Medical Physics, Volume 7, Issue 2, pp:145-146, March 1980.)
Hanson WF, Berkley LW, Peterson MD.

·        Measurement of Surface Dose
(International Journal Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 5:449-450, 1979.)
Gagnon WF.

·        Physical Factors Affecting Absorbed Dose to Skin from Cobalt-60 Gamma Rays and 25 MV X-rays
(Medical Physics, Volume 6, Issue 4, pp:285-290, July 1979.)
Gagnon WF, Horton JL:

·        Linacs for Radiation Therapy, 1978:   Physics Characteristics, Marketing Parameters and the Ideal Accelerator.
(Proceedings of the 1978 Conference on Application of Small Accelerators in Research and Industry, Denton, Texas, November 6-8, 1978.   IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science NS 26:1827-1832, 1979.)
Hanson WF.

·        A Review of the Reliability of Chamber Factors used Clinically in the United States (1968-1976)
(Medical Physics, Volume 5, Issue 6, pp:552-555, November 1978 .)
Hanson WF, Grant III WH, Kennedy P, Cundiff JH, Gagnon WF, Berkley LW, Shalek RJ.

·        An Analysis of Discrepancies Encountered by the AAPM Radiological Physics Center
(Medical Physics, Volume 5, Issue 6, pp:556-560, November 1978 )
Gagnon WF, Kennedy P, Berkley LW, Hanson, Shalek RJ.

·        Comparison of Skin Doses for Large Fields from Tangential Beams from Cobalt-60 and 4 MV X-rays
(Radiology 127:785-788, 1978.)
Gagnon WF, Peterson MD.

·        Calibration in Water Versus Calibration in Air for Cobalt-60 γ Rays
(Medical Physics, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp:68-69, January 1977)
Grant III WH, Cundiff JH, Gagnon WF, Hanson WF, Shalek RJ.

·        Quality Assurance for Measurements in Therapy
(Measurements for the Safe Use of Radiation, NBS Special Publication No. 456:111-118, 1976.)
Shalek RJ, Kennedy P, Stovall M, Cundiff JH, Ganging WF, Grant III WH, Hanson WF.

·        Postoperative Radiation Therapy on Residual Wilms' Tumor.   Review of Group III Patients in the National Wilms' Tumor Study
(Cancer 37:6, 1976.)
Tefft M, D'Angio GJ, Grant III WH:

·        Use of auxiliary collimating devices in the treatment for breast cancer with 60Co teletherapy units. I. Dosimetric considerations
(American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol 127, Issue 4, pp:649-652, 1976.)
Grant III WH, Cundiff JH, Hanson WF

·        Calibration Instrumentation Used by the AAPM Radiological Physics Center
(Medical Physics, Volume 3, Issue 5, pp:353-354, September 1976.)
Grant III WH, Cundiff JH, Hanson WF, Gagnon WF, Shalek RJ.

·        Use of axiliary collimating devices in the treatment for breast cancer with 60Co teletherapy units. II. Dose to the skin
(American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol 127, Issue 4, pp:653-657, 1976.)
Hanson WF, Grant III WH.

·        International Dosimetry: An Evaluation of Treatment Planning in Clinical Trials
(British Journal of Radiology, Vol 48, Issue 572, 634-637, 1975.)
W Grant and MJ Davis

·        Surface Dose from Megavoltage Therapy Machines
(Radiology 117:705-708, 1975.)
Gagnon WF, Grant III WH.

·        Measurements of electron-beam energy with rapid-processed film
(Medical Physics, Volume 1, Issue 2, pp:74-76, March 1974.)
Feldman A, de Almeida C, Almond P.

·        AAPM Radiological Physics Center:   A Status Report
(Medical Physics 1:41-43, 1974.)
Grant III WH.

·        Cobalt-60 Therapy Equipment Malfunctions
(Radiology 109:193-194, 1973.)
Lanzel LH, Grant III WH, Davis MJ.

·        Radiological Physics Center in a Cancer Center and Other Comments
(Frontiers in Radiation Therapy and Oncology 8:120-125, 1973.)
Shalek RJ.

·        The Calculation of Dose in the Radiation Treatment of Hodgkin's Disease
(American Journal of Roentgenology 117:30-44, 1973.)
Cundiff JH, Cunningham JR, Golden R, Holt G, Lanzel LH, Meurk ML, Ovadia J, Page V, Pope RA, Sampiere VA, Saylor WL, Shalek RJ, Suntharalingam N:

·        A Review of the Activities of the AAPM Radiological Physics Center in Interinstitution
Grant III WH, Shalek RJ, Cundiff JH, Golden R.