Medical Dosimetry
Volume 36, Issue 1 , Pages 102-108 , Spring 2011

Re-Planning for Compensator-Based IMRT with Original Compensators

Presented at the World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Munich, Germany, September 7–12, 2009

Received 8 July 2009 ,Accepted 10 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2010.01.004

Medical Dosimetry
Volume 36, Issue 1 , Pages 102-108 , Spring 2011

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