Real-time tumour-tracking radiotherapy

Lancet

Volumn 353, Issue 9161, 1999, Pages 1331-1332

  Shirato, Hiroki ^a   Shimizu, Shinichi ^a   Shimizu, Tadashi ^a   Nishioka, Takeshi ^a   Miyasaka, Kazuo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MARKER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR;

EID: 0033577447     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)00700-X     Document Type: Article

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