Imaging in Radiation Oncology: A Perspective

This paper reviews the integration of imaging and radiation oncology, and discusses challenges and opportunities for improving the practice of radiation oncology with imaging.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  The Oncologist

• Publication date

  2010-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1634/theoncologist.2009-S106PMID 20413639PMCID 3227970
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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