Medical Dosimetry
Volume 31, Issue 2 , Pages 141-151 , Summer 2006

Technical aspects of image-guided respiration-gated radiation therapy

  • Steve B. Jiang, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: Steve B. Jiang, Ph.D., Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 100 Blossom Street, Boston, MA 02114.

,Accepted 21 December 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2005.12.005

Medical Dosimetry
Volume 31, Issue 2 , Pages 141-151 , Summer 2006

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