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  1. Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA

    Andrzej Niemierko

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  1. Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 30 Fruit Street, Boston, MA, 02114, USA

    Thomas Bortfeld

  2. Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 401 College Street, Richmond, VA, 23298-0058, USA

    Rupert Schmidt-Ullrich

  3. Dept. of Radiotherapy, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 9000, Ghent, Belgium

    Wilfried De Neve

  4. Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Tufts University, 750 Washington Street, Boston, MA, 02111, USA

    David E. Wazer

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Niemierko, A. (2006). Biological Aspects of IMRT Planning and Delivery. In: Bortfeld, T., Schmidt-Ullrich, R., De Neve, W., Wazer, D.E. (eds) Image-Guided IMRT. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-30356-1_8

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