Radiation therapy quality assurance in clinical trials - Global harmonisation group

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 327-329

  Melidis, Christos ^a   Bosch, Walter R ^b   Izewska, Joanna ^c   Fidarova, Elena ^c   Zubizarreta, Eduardo ^c   Ishikura, Satoshi ^d   Followill, David ^e   Galvin, James ^f   Xiao, Ying ^f   Ebert, Martin A ^g   Kron, Tomas ^h   Clark, Catharine H ⁱ   Miles, Elizabeth A ⁱ   Aird, Edwin G A ⁱ   Weber, Damien C ^a   Ulin, Kenneth ⁱ   Verellen, Dirk ^j   Hurkmans, Coen W ^a  

^a EORTC DATA CENTER   (Belgium)

^b ITC   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^d JCOG QART   (Japan)

^e RPC RTQA   (United States)

^f RTOG RTQA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^h TROG RTQA   (Australia)

ⁱ TROG RTQA ^*  (United States)

^j VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); EDITORIAL; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); ONCOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION ONCOLOGIST; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MEDICAL AUDIT;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 84905280550     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2014.03.023     Document Type: Editorial

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