Clinical radiation doses for spinal cord: The 1998 international questionnaire

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 295-300

  Fowler, Jack F ^a,b   Bentzen, Søren M ^b   Bond, Simon J ^b   Ang, Kian K ^c   Van Der Kogel, Albert J ^d   Van Den Bogaert, Walter ^a   Schueren, Emmanuel Van Der ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UZ the ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clinical radiation; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOSIMETRY; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; PARTIAL BODY RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TREATMENT FAILURE;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034213426     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(99)00133-4     Document Type: Article

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