Editorial: Patient safety and the medical physicist

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Hendee, William ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL PHYSICISTS; PATIENT SAFETY;

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT; PHYSICS; RADIOTHERAPY; SAFETY;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MEDICINE; PATIENTS; PHYSICS; RADIOTHERAPY; SAFETY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052043085     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3581379     Document Type: Editorial

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