Errors and Margins in Radiotherapy

Seminars in Radiation Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 52-64

  Van Herk, Marcel ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE CALCULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL ERROR; MOTION; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 0842306308     PISSN: 10534296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semradonc.2003.10.003     Document Type: Article

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