Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 86, Issue 1 , Pages 20-24 , January 2008

A quantitative image quality comparison of four different image guided radiotherapy devices

  • Julia Stützel
    • ,
  • Uwe Oelfke
    • ,
  • Simeon Nill

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Simeon Nill, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Department of Medial Physics (E040), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

Received 25 September 2007 ,Revised 18 October 2007 ,Accepted 21 October 2007.

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PII: S0167-8140(07)00539-7

doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.10.035

Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 86, Issue 1 , Pages 20-24 , January 2008

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