Introducing new technologies into the clinic

Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and Oncology

Volumn 40, Issue , 2007, Pages 180-192

  Vijayakumar, S ^a   Narayan, S ^a   Yang, C C ^a   Boerner, P ^a   Jacob, R ^a   Mathai, M ^a   Harse, R ^a   Purdy, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BENCHMARKING; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34547545241     PISSN: 00719676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/0000106035     Document Type: Conference Paper

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