Medical Dosimetry
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 86-91 , Summer 2007

Frame-Based Immobilization and Targeting for Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy

  • Bryan Murray, C.M.D.

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: Bryan Murray, C.M.D., UT Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, 5801 Forest Park Road, Dallas, TX 75390.
    • ,
  • Kenneth Forster, Ph.D.
    • ,
  • Robert Timmerman, M.D.

,Accepted 11 January 2007.

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PII: S0958-3947(07)00006-4

doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2007.01.005

Medical Dosimetry
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 86-91 , Summer 2007

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