The risks to healthy tissues from the use of existing and emerging techniques for radiation therapy

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 143, Issue 2-4, 2011, Pages 533-535

  Ottolenghi, Andrea ^a,b   Smyth, Vere ^a   Trott, Klaus R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

HUMANS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79952331141     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: 17423406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncq524     Document Type: Article

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