Dosimetric verification of radiotherapy treatment planning systems in Serbia: National audit

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Rutonjski, Laza ^a   Petrović, Borislava ^a   Baucal, Milutin ^a   Teodorović, Milan ^a   Čudić, Ozren ^a   Gershkevitsh, Eduard ^b   Izewska, Joanna ^c  

^a Institute of Oncology of Vojvodina   (Serbia)

^b North Estonia Regional Hospital   (Estonia)

^c INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dose calculation algorithms; Quality assurance; Treatment planning systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; SERBIA; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; CARCINOMA; CLINICAL AUDIT; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SERBIA;

EID: 84866022610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-7-155     Document Type: Article

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