Current Brachytherapy Quality Assurance Guidance: Does It Meet the Challenges of Emerging Image-Guided Technologies?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2008, Pages

  Williamson, Jeffrey F ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Image guided radiotherapy; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PROCESS ENGINEERING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY; SPECIFICATIONS; SURGERY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; PROCEDURE-SPECIFIC PROCESS FLOW;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DEVICE; DOSIMETRY; IMAGING; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PLANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; TECHNOLOGY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 41749088696     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.07.2388     Document Type: Article

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