Quality assurance of a virtual simulation software: application to IMAgo and SIMAgo (ISOgrayTM);Assurance qualité d'un logiciel de simulation virtuelle : application à IMAgo et SIMAgo (ISOgrayTM)

Cancer/Radiotherapie

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 178-187

  Isambert, A ^a   Beaudre A ^a   Ferreira, I ^a   Lefkopoulos, D ^a  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

Quality assurance; Radiation therapy; Virtual simulation workstation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA EXTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRANCE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34447294812     PISSN: 12783218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canrad.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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