title: Medical physicists should seek patent protection for new ideas before publishing articles about them.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 48109, USA. antonuk@umich.edu
authors.forename: L E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Antonuk
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sprawls
mesh_terms: D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006283:Health Physics; D007255:Information Services; D010330:Patents as Topic; D011643:Publishing; D012106:Research; D014481:United States