Pulmonary injury from proton and conventional radiotherapy as revealed by CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 735-739

  Bush, David A ^a   Dunbar, Richard D ^b   Bonnet, Reiner ^a,c   Slater, Jerry D ^a   Cheek, Gregory A ^b   Slater, James M ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Bad Berka GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG INJURY; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY;

EID: 0033053951     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.172.3.10063871     Document Type: Article

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