Extraction of data for margin calculations in prostate radiotherapy from a commercial record and verify system

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 161-170

  Fox, C ^a   Fisher, R ^a   Kron, T ^a   Tai, K H ^a,b   Thompson, A ^a   Owen, R ^a   Foroudi, F ^a,b  

^a PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA EXTRACTION; HUMAN; IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RECORD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77951263773     PISSN: 17549477     EISSN: 17549485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-9485.2010.02156.x     Document Type: Article

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