Further improvements in dose distributions are unlikely to affect cure rates

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1007-1009

  Schulz, R J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURING;

ADVANCED TREATMENT; CONFORMAL THERAPY; CURE RATE; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; MRI SCAN; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; TREATMENT VOLUMES; TUMOR DOSE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0033013513     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598492     Document Type: Article

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