Medical Dosimetry
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 157-165 , Autumn 2007

3D Dose Reconstruction to Insure Correct External Beam Treatment of Patients

  • Wendel Dean Renner, M.S.

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: Wendel Dean Renner, Math Resolutions, LLC, 5975 Gales Lane, Columbia, MD 21045.

Received 15 September 2006 ,Accepted 8 February 2007.

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PII: S0958-3947(07)00045-3

doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2007.02.005

Medical Dosimetry
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 157-165 , Autumn 2007