Radiation departments should be certified to provide certain new technologies such as IGRT

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5377-5379

  Njeh, Christopher F ^a   Rashid, Abdul ^b   Orton, Colin G ^c  

^a Tyler Cancer Center   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CERTIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; IMAGE GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGIST; REVIEW; SAFETY; STANDARD; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; NEOPLASM; RADIOLOGY;

CERTIFICATION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RADIOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SAFETY;

EID: 72049085768     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3223359     Document Type: Review

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