Accident prevention in radiotherapy

Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Holmberg, Ola ^a  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Accident; Error; Incident; Quality assurance; Risk management

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AWARENESS; CALIBRATION; CANADA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COSTA RICA; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; PANAMA; POLAND; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57049187265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18235530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2349/biij.3.2.e27     Document Type: Review

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