The EQUAL-ESTRO audit on geometric reconstruction techniques in brachytherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 78-83

  Roué, Amélie ^a,b   Ferreira, Ivaldo H ^b   Van Dam, Jan ^a   Svensson, Hans ^c   Venselaar, Jack L M ^d  

^a EQUAL ESTRO Laboratory   (France)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d DR BERNARD VERBEETEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Baltas phantom; External audit; Geometric reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION PHYSICS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 31144456088     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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