Reproducibility of irregular radiation fields for malignant lymphoma

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 174, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 529-533

  Mock, Ulrike ^a,d   Dieckmann, Karin ^a   Molitor, Anna M ^b   Haverkamp, Uwe ^c   Pötter, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c Clemenshospital Munster   (Germany)

^d Klin F Strahlentherapie Biol U   (Austria)

Author keywords

Malignant lymphoma; Reproducibility; Set up accuracy; Verification films

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 0031723767     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03038986     Document Type: Article

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