The ViewRay™ system

Adaptive Motion Compensation in Radiotherapy

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 115-128

  Low, Daniel A ^a   Stark, Richard ^b   Dempsey, James F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ViewRayTM Inc   (United States)

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