Initial experience with quality assurance of multi-institutional 3D radiotherapy clinical trials: A brief report

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 174, Issue SUPPL. 2, 1998, Pages 40-42

  Purdy, James A ^a   Harms, William B ^b   Michalski, Jeff ^b   Bosch, Walter R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b School of Medicine ^*

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Conformal therapy; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 0031670874     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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