Planning in the IGRT Context: Closing the Loop

Seminars in Radiation Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 268-277

  Mageras, Gig S ^a   Mechalakos, James ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548813375     PISSN: 10534296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semradonc.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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