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External Beam Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART) on a Conventional Medical Accelerator

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  1. Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

    John Wong

  2. Dept. of Radiation Oncology, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, USA

    Di Yan, David Lockman, Don Brabbins, Frank Vicini & Alvaro Martinez

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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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Wong, J., Yan, D., Lockman, D., Brabbins, D., Vicini, F., Martinez, A. (2006). External Beam Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART) on a Conventional Medical Accelerator. 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_18

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