Physical aspects of total-body irradiation at the Middlesex Hospital (UCL group of hospitals), London 1988-1993: I. Phantom measurements and planning methods

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2307-2326

  Planskoy, B ^a   Bedford, A M ^b   Davis, F M ^c   Tapper, P D ^d   Loverock, L T ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KENT AND CANTERBURY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e St Luke's Hospital Guildford   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; LIGHT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ALGORITHMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HEAD; HUMANS; LONDON; LUNG; NECK; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TEMPERATURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WATER; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 0029957194     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/41/11/005     Document Type: Article

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