Complexity of advanced radiation therapy necessitates multidisciplinary inquiry into dose reconstruction and risk assessment

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 23, 2010, Pages

  Newhauser, Wayne ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 78650074916     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/23/E01     Document Type: Review

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