What is an acceptably smoothed fluence? Dosimetric and delivery considerations for dynamic sliding window IMRT

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Giorgia, Nicolini ^a   Antonella, Fogliata ^a   Eugenio, Vanetti ^a,b   Alessandro, Clivio ^a,b   Filippo, Ammazzalorso ^d   Luca, Cozzi ^a,c  

^a ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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EID: 39049096779     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-2-42     Document Type: Article

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