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Volume 22, Issue 8 , Pages 636-642 , October 2010

Survey of the Availability and Use of Advanced Radiotherapy Technology in the UK

W.P.M. Mayles
- Author for correspondence: W.P.M. Mayles, Physics Department, Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology NHS Foundation Trust, Bebington, Wirral, Merseyside CH63 4JY, UK. Tel/Fax: +44-151-604-7391.
on behalf of the Radiotherapy Development Board
- Radiotherapy Development Board: A. Barrett (University of East Anglia, representing the National Radiotherapy Action Group, UK), J. Barrett (Royal Berkshire Hospital, representing the Royal College of Radiologists [RCR], UK), C. Beardmore (representing the Society and College of Radiographers [SCoR], UK), S. Davies (North Middlesex University Hospital, London, UK), S. Hood (lay representative), R. Mackay (Christie NHS Foundation Trust, representing the Institute of Physics in Engineering and Medicine [IPEM], UK), P. Mayles (Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology, representing the National Cancer Research Institute [NCRI], UK), A. Poynter (Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, representing the Academic Clinical Oncology and Radiobiology Research Network [ACORRN], UK), P. Price (University of Manchester, ACORRN, UK), D. Routsis (Addenbrooke’s Hospital, SCoR, UK), J. Staffurth (Cardiff University, NCRI, UK), S. Thomas (Addenbrooke’s Hospital, IPEM, UK), M. Williams (Addenbrooke’s Hospital, RCR, UK).

Received 22 March 2010 ,Revised 18 May 2010 ,Accepted 23 June 2010.

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