Adaptive Radiotherapy: Merging Principle Into Clinical Practice

Seminars in Radiation Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 79-83

  Yan, Di ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

DECISION MAKING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77249114250     PISSN: 10534296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semradonc.2009.11.001     Document Type: Editorial

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