The Dose Verification System (DVS®) for cancer patients receiving radiation therapy

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 679-685

  Scarantino, Charles W ^a,b   Beyer, Gloria P ^b  

^a Rex Cancer Center   (United States)

^b Sicel Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Image guided radiation therapy; Implantable dosimeter; In situ dosimetry; Individualization of therapy; Intensity modulated radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COST CONTROL; DOSIMETER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PAIN; PATIENT MONITORING; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; ANIMAL; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOMETRY; REVIEW; STANDARD;

ANIMALIA; DAPHNE VIRUS S;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 58149380160     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17434440.5.6.679     Document Type: Article

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