Medical Dosimetry
Volume 35, Issue 2 , Pages 143-150 , Summer 2010

Generation of Composite Dose and Biological Effective Dose (BED) Over Multiple Treatment Modalities and Multistage Planning Using Deformable Image Registration

Received 18 November 2008 ,Accepted 4 May 2009.

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Medical Dosimetry
Volume 35, Issue 2 , Pages 143-150 , Summer 2010

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