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Lichter et al., 1992 - Google Patents

Clinical experience with three-dimensional treatment planning

Lichter et al., 1992

Document ID
10702553805196947656
Author
Lichter A
Sandler H
Robertson J
Lawrence T
Ten Haken R
McShan D
Fraass B
Publication year
Publication venue
Seminars in Radiation Oncology

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It is now possible routinely to use 3-D treatment planning and 3-D dose-delivery techniques in a busy radiation oncology clinic. While labor-intensive at first, dosimetrists, physicists, and physicians become more skilled in applying these planning techniques as experience …
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