Clinical experience of the importance of daily portal imaging for head and neck IMRT treatments

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 26-33

  Court, Laurence E ^a   Wolfsberger, Luciant ^a   Allen, Aaron M ^a   James, Steven ^a   Tishler, Roy B ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck; Image guided; IMRT; Localization

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049162971     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v9i3.2756     Document Type: Article

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