Multi-institutional clinical trials: 3-D conformal radiotherapy quality assurance. Guidelines in an NCI/RTOG study evaluating dose escalation in prostate cancer radiotherapy

Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue , 1996, Pages 255-263

  Purdy, James A ^a   Harms, William B ^a   Michalski, Jeff ^a   Cox, James D ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; STANDARD; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; UNITED STATES;

ADENOCARCINOMA; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029693365     PISSN: 00719676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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3. ICRU Report 50: Prescribing, Recording, and Reporting Photon Beam Therapy. International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements, Bethesda, 1993.