The Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Linac System

Seminars in Radiation Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 207-209

  Lagendijk, Jan J W ^a   Raaymakers, Bas W ^a   van Vulpen, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOFREQUENCY; REVIEW; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INTERVENTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; ONCOLOGY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED;

EID: 84902209260     PISSN: 10534296     EISSN: 15329461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semradonc.2014.02.009     Document Type: Review

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