Routine 3D treatment planning: Opportunities, challenges, and hazards

ONCOLOGY

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1191-1201

  Marks, Lawrence B ^b   Bentel, Gunilla ^b   Light, Kim ^b   Zhou, Su Min ^b   Sibley, Gregory ^b   Anscher, Mitchell ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; STANDARD;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAFETY;

EID: 0034242985     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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