From new frontiers to new standards of practice: Advances in radiotherapy planning and delivery

Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and Oncology

Volumn 40, Issue , 2007, Pages 18-39

  Purdy, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NEOPLASM; RADIATION DOSE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 34547531853     PISSN: 00719676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/0000106026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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