Dosimetric assessment of rigid setup error by CBCT for HN-IMRT

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 38-53

  Worthy, Danielle ^a   Wu, Qiuwen ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; IMRT; Margin; Setup error

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957010833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v11i3.3187     Document Type: Article

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