Automatic calculation of three-dimensional margins around treatment volumes in radiotherapy planning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 745-755

  Stroom, J C ^a   Storchi, P R M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030973792     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/42/4/011     Document Type: Article

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