Standardizing naming conventions in radiation oncology

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1344-1349

  Santanam, Lakshmi ^a   Hurkmans, Coen ^b   Mutic, Sasa ^a   Van Vliet Vroegindeweij, Corine ^c   Brame, Scott ^a   Straube, William ^a   Galvin, James ^c   Tripuraneni, Prabhakar ^d   Michalski, Jeff ^a   Bosch, Walter ^a,e  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d SCRIPPS CLINIC   (United States)

^e Advanced Technology Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

Naming conventions; Standardizing; Structures; Target volumes

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; BASIC STRUCTURE; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLABORATIVE DATABASE; DATA SETS; DATA SHARING; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATION IN MEDICINES; INTEGRATING THE HEALTHCARE ENTERPRISE; INTERNAL TARGET VOLUME; INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION; NAMING CONVENTIONS; NON-STANDARD STRUCTURES; ORGANS AT RISKS; PATIENT DATA; PATIENT DATASETS; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; QUALITY CONTROL CENTER; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIATION THERAPY ONCOLOGY GROUPS; RADIATION UNIT; STANDARDIZING; TARGET VOLUMES; TREATMENT PLANS; TREATMENT SITES; WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY;

EXPERIMENTS; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; ONCOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TERMINOLOGY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NOMENCLATURE; ONCOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR; VOLUMETRY;

HUMANS; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84861587117     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.09.054     Document Type: Article

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