Quality assessment and assurance in clinical hyperthermia: requirements and procedures

The ultimate goal of quality assessment and quality assurance in clinical hyperthermia must be the delivery of satisfactorily similar thermotherapy to all patients entered into a given treatment protocol. Therefore, in addition to dealing with performance evaluation and calibration of equipment for heating and thermometry, hyperthermia quality assurance must also address specification, planning, administration, documentation, evaluation, and reconstruction of the clinical treatments themselves.