Abstract: To forestall radiation accidents and to optimize the quality of treatment administered to patients (and to) with all radiation therapy / diagnostics equipment's a well-designed and quality assurance program must be put in place, maintained and sustained this is seen not to be tradition in many countries in the west African sub region and the consequences of this is obvious this paper which is more of a review tried to recap the necessary:
(I) Dosimetry quality assurance......
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