On the quality of treatment planning systems in radiation therapy

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 174, Issue SUPPL. 2, 1998, Pages 31-35

  Panten, Thomas ^a   Höss, Angelika ^b   Bohsung, Jörg ^c   Becker, Gerd ^d   Sroka Pérez, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conformal radiation therapy; Quality assurance; Treatment planning; Treatment planning systems

Indexed keywords

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAFETY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

GERMANY; HUMANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0031718299     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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