Dosimetry and design of radioactive eye plaques

Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue , 1997, Pages 26-38

  Fluhs D ^a,b,d   Bambynek, M ^a,b,d   Heintz, M ^a,b,d   Indenkampen F ^a,b,d   Kolanoski, H ^a,e   Wegener, D ^a,d   Sauerwein, W ^a,c   Quast, U ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b Klinische Strahlenphysik   (Germany)

^c Klinik für Radioonkologie Strahlentherapie   (Germany)

^d TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RADIOISOTOPE; RHODIUM; RUTHENIUM;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EYE; EYE TUMOR; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; EYE; EYE NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RHODIUM; RUTHENIUM RADIOISOTOPES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030633967     PISSN: 00719676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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