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Measurement Traceability in Medical Physics

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Author(s)

Lisa R. Karam

Abstract

Medical physics, the joining of physics with healthcare, requires a level of quality assurance beyond many applications of the physical sciences. Always the health, and often the life, of the patient depends on the precise and accurate implementation of potentially dangerous tools such as ionizing radiation (x rays, electromagnetic radiation, radionuclides), the control of which is necessary for both efficacy and safety. A key approach to assuring this necessary control is through measurement or metrological traceability.
Citation
Medical Physics
Volume
39
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

dosimetry, medical imaging, nuclear medicine, radiotherapy, uncertainties
Biological physics and Radiation

Citation

Karam, L. (2014), Measurement Traceability in Medical Physics, Medical Physics, [online], https://doi.org/10.4103/0971-6203.125470 (Accessed October 10, 2025)

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Created January 1, 2014, Updated November 10, 2018
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