Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 86, Issue 1 , Pages 30-34 , January 2008

Dose painting with IMPT, helical tomotherapy and IMXT: A dosimetric comparison

  • Daniela Thorwarth

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Daniela Thorwarth, Section for Biomedical Physics, University Hospital for Radiation Oncology, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. Tel.: +49 0 7071 2986062; fax: +49 0 7071 294820.
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  • Martin Soukup
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  • Markus Alber

Received 20 September 2007 ,Revised 31 October 2007 ,Accepted 2 November 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.11.003

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Volume 86, Issue 1 , Pages 30-34 , January 2008

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