Cavity theory applied to the dosimetry of systemic radiotherapy of bone metastases

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 879-896

  Breent, Stephen L ^a,b,c   Battista, Jerry J ^a,b  

^a LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; THEORY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; BONE NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0034036898     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/4/305     Document Type: Article

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