A community call for a dedicated radiobiological research facility to support particle beam cancer therapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-3

  Holzscheiter, Michael H ^a   Bassler, Niels ^b,c   Dosanjh, Manjit ^d   Sørensen, Brita Singers ^c   Overgaard, Jens ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NIMORAZOLE;

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELL CULTURE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DOSIMETRY; EDITORIAL; GERMANY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAVY ION RADIATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PARTICLE BEAM CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PHYSICS; RADIOBIOLOGY; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RADIOBIOLOGY; RESEARCH;

EID: 84868370993     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2012.08.005     Document Type: Editorial

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