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  1. Dept. of Radiotherapy, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

    Wilfried De Neve

  2. Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA

    Yan Wu

  3. Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, USA

    Gary Ezzell

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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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De Neve, W., Wu, Y., Ezzell, G. (2006). Practical IMRT Planning. 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_5

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