Medical Dosimetry
Volume 32, Issue 4 , Pages 287-294 , Winter 2007

Quantification of Dosimetric Impact of Implementation of On-Board Imaging (OBI) for IMRT Treatment of Head-And-Neck Malignancies

This data was presented, in part, at the 88th Annual Meeting of the American Radium Society, Maui, 2006.

Received 18 July 2006 ,Accepted 20 February 2007.

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Medical Dosimetry
Volume 32, Issue 4 , Pages 287-294 , Winter 2007

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