Small animal radiotherapy research platforms

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Verhaegen, Frank ^a,b   Granton, Patrick ^a   Tryggestad, Erik ^c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; BEAM POSITIONING; CONFORMAL RADIATION THERAPY; CONTRAST-ENHANCED RADIOTHERAPIES; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; HIGH RESOLUTION CT; IMAGE GUIDANCES; IMAGING CAPABILITIES; KILOVOLT X-RAYS; PRE-CLINICAL; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RESEARCH PLATFORMS; SMALL ANIMAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; IRRADIATION; MAMMALS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOTHERAPY;

EXPERIMENTS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79958137260     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/12/R01     Document Type: Review

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