Medical Dosimetry
Volume 31, Issue 2 , Pages 126-133 , Summer 2006

X-ray volume imaging in image-guided radiotherapy

  • Theodore Thorson, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Medical Marketects, Los Altos, CA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: Theodore Thorson, Ph.D., Medical Marketects, P.O. Box 3340, Los Altos, CA 94024.
    • ,
  • Tim Prosser

      Affiliations

    • Elekta, Inc., Norcross, GA

,Accepted 21 December 2005.

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PII: S0958-3947(05)00193-7

doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2005.12.007

Medical Dosimetry
Volume 31, Issue 2 , Pages 126-133 , Summer 2006

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