Improving Quality and Consistency in NRG Oncology Radiation Therapy Oncology Group 0631 for Spine Radiosurgery via Knowledge-Based Planning
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Quality in radiation oncology.
A modern approach to quality was developed in the United States at Bell Telephone Laboratories during the first part of the 20th century. Over the years, those quality techniques have been adopted and extended by almost every industry. Medicine in general and radiation oncology in particular have been slow to adopt modern quality techniques. This work contains a brief description of the history...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0360-3016
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2017.12.276