Clinical and financial issues for intensity-modulated radiation therapy delivery

Seminars in Radiation Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 99-107

  Grant III, W ^a   Woo, S Y ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW;

EID: 0033048691     PISSN: 10534296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-4296(99)80057-5     Document Type: Article

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