Verification films: A study of the daily and weekly reproducibility of Breast patient set-up in the START trial

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 337-342

  Venables, Karen ^a   Miles, E A ^a   Hoskin, P J ^a   Aird, E G A ^a   Aird, E ^b   Barrett, J ^b   Barrett Lee, P ^b   Bliss, J ^b   Brown, J ^b   Dewar, J ^b   Dobbs, J ^b   Haviland, J ^b   Hopwood, P ^b   Lawton, P ^b   Magee, B ^b   Morgan, D ^b   Owen, R ^b   Parkin, E ^b   Pritchard, J ^b   Speechely, V ^b   Spooner, D ^b   Sydenham, M ^b   Winfield, E ^b   Yarnold, J ^b   more..

^a MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Breast radiotherapy; Portal imaging; Trial quality assurance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; X RAY FILM;

EID: 21644463597     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2005.03.006     Document Type: Article

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