Medical Dosimetry
Volume 35, Issue 1 , Pages 67-76 , Spring 2010

Superiority of Equivalent Uniform Dose (EUD)-Based Optimization for Breast and Chest Wall*

Oral presentation at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, July 2007.

Received 10 October 2008 ,Accepted 2 March 2009.

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Medical Dosimetry
Volume 35, Issue 1 , Pages 67-76 , Spring 2010

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