Specification of the dose to organs at risk in external beam radiotherapy

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 129-135

  Dale, Einar ^a,b   Olsen, Dag R ^a,c  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c University of Oslos   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; STATISTICS;

EID: 0030993983     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02841869709109220     Document Type: Article

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