Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 95, Issue 2 , Pages 218-224 , May 2010

Dummy run and conformity indices in the ongoing EORTC low-grade glioma trial 22033-26033: First evaluation of quality of radiotherapy planning

  • Elena Musat

      Affiliations

    • Radiation-Oncology Department, Institute Curie – René Huguenin Hospital, Saint-Cloud, France
    • EORTC Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Radiation-Oncology Department, Institute Curie – René Huguenin Hospital, 35 Rue Dailly, 92210 Saint-Cloud, France.
    • ,
  • Erik Roelofs

      Affiliations

    • Radiation-Oncology Department, Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC), The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Raquel Bar-Deroma

      Affiliations

    • Oncology Department, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    • ,
  • Paul Fenton

      Affiliations

    • EORTC Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium
    • ,
  • Akos Gulyban

      Affiliations

    • EORTC Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium
    • ,
  • Laurence Collette

      Affiliations

    • EORTC Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium
    • ,
  • Roger Stupp

      Affiliations

    • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Damien C. Weber

      Affiliations

    • Radiation Oncology Department, Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland
    • ,
  • J. Bernard Davis

      Affiliations

    • Radiation Oncology Clinic and Policlinic, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
    • Deceased 2008.
    • ,
  • Edwin Aird

      Affiliations

    • Medical Physics Department, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middlesex, UK
    • ,
  • Brigitta G. Baumert

      Affiliations

    • Radiation-Oncology Department, Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC), The Netherlands

Received 19 May 2009 ,Revised 18 February 2010 ,Accepted 6 March 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.03.005

Radiotherapy & Oncology
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