Comment on "Catching errors with patient-specific pretreatment machine log file analysis"

Practical Radiation Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 91-92

  Kruse, Jon J ^a   Mayo, Charles S ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSIMETRY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MACHINE LOG FILE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL ERROR; NOTE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; QUALITY CONTROL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 84875661140     PISSN: 18798500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prro.2012.05.007     Document Type: Editorial

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