방사선 치료 장치 및 인력에 관한 연구

This report presents the date obtained in a 1990 survery al radiation oncology identified by KSTRO. This study was done to find out the status of current use of the radation thrapy equipments, personnels, utilization of equipments and orther problems in the field of radiation oncology department in korea. Our discussion addresses the areas of regional imbalance in the distribution of megavolage units, buying and selecting the units, improving of quality in radiation treatments. There is increasing use of linear accelerators, simulators, treatment planning computers. The use of Cp-60 units has been prohressively decreasing. And slowly improving, numbers of physicians, physicists, and technologists when compared with the 1988. A total of 51 megavoltage units were identified, giving a ratio of 1.88 technologists/ megavoltage units. We treat average 23.0 patients by megavoltage units.