American Society of Radiation Oncology Recommendations for Documenting Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy Treatments

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1311-1318

  Holmes, Timothy ^a   Das, Rupak ^b   Low, Daniel ^c   Yin, Fang Fang ^d   Balter, James ^e   Palta, Jatinder ^f   Eifel, Patricia ^g  

^a St Agnes Cancer Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Documentation; IGRT; IMRT; Intensity modulated radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENTATION; IGRT; IMAGE GUIDANCES; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIATION PHYSICS; WORKGROUP;

ONCOLOGY; RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RESEARCH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PHYSICS;

DOCUMENTATION; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETREATMENT; TUMOR BURDEN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67651109063     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.04.037     Document Type: Article

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