General principles for prescribing, recording and reporting a therapeutic irradiation

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 73, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2004, Pages

  Grégoire, Vincent ^a   Pötter, Richard ^b   Wambersie, André ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ion therapy; RBE; Volumes; Weighted dose; Weighting factor

Indexed keywords

ION; PROTON; HEAVY ION;

BEAM THERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOBIOLOGY; SAFETY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; ARTICLE; NEOPLASM; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS;

HEAVY IONS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 21444457143     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(04)80015-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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