A scenario for a web-based radiation treatment planning structure: A new tool for quality assurance procedure?

Technology and Health Care

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 105-114

  Kouloulias, Vassilis E ^a,b   Ntasis, E ^b   Poortmans, Ph ^c   Maniatis, T A ^b   Nikita, K S ^b  

^a EORTC DATA CENTER   (Belgium)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c DR BERNARD VERBEETEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Radiotherapy; Treatment planning; Web based telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INTERNET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEVISION CAMERA;

EID: 0038076161     PISSN: 09287329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/thc-2003-11203     Document Type: Article

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