Medical Dosimetry
Volume 35, Issue 2 , Pages 122-127 , Summer 2010

Helical Tomotherapy of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma—Any Advantages Over Conventional Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy?

  • W.C. Vincent Wu, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: W. C. Vincent Wu, PhD, Department of Health Technology and Informatics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
    • ,
  • Wing-lun A. Mui, BSc(Hons)
    • ,
  • Wing-ki W. Fung, BSc (Hons)

Received 29 December 2008 ,Accepted 1 April 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2009.04.001

Medical Dosimetry
Volume 35, Issue 2 , Pages 122-127 , Summer 2010

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