Improvements in radiotherapy practice: The impact of new imaging technologies

Cancer Imaging

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 142-150

  Driver, David ^a   Dobbs, H Jane ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image registration; Radiotherapy treatment planning; Treatment verification; Virtual simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 57149097389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14707330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1102/1470-7330.2004.0053     Document Type: Article

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