The impact of virtual simulation in palliative radiotherapy for non-small-cell lung cancer

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 311-318

  McJury, Mark ^a   Fisher, Patricia M ^a   Pledge, Simon ^a   Brown, Gillian ^a   Anthony, Catherine ^a   Hatton, Matthew Q ^a   Conway, John ^a   Robinson, Martin H ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computed tomography simulation; Non small cell lung cancer; Palliative radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIMULATION; TARGET CELL DESTRUCTION; TOXICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PALLIATIVE CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0035371156     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(01)00308-5     Document Type: Article

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