State of the art on dose prescription, reporting and recording in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (ICRU report No. 83)

Cancer/Radiotherapie

Volumn 15, Issue 6-7, 2011, Pages 555-559

  Gregoire V ^a   Mackie, T R ^b  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

CTV; Dose constraint; Dose optimization; GTV; IMRT; OAR; PTV

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SHORT SURVEY; TARGET ORGAN;

FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; MEDICAL RECORDS; NEOPLASMS; PRESCRIPTIONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RESEARCH REPORT; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 80053307779     PISSN: 12783218     EISSN: 17696658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canrad.2011.04.003     Document Type: Short Survey

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