Medical Dosimetry
Volume 36, Issue 2 , Pages 138-144 , Summer 2011

A New Approach to Computing Normal Tissue Complication Probability of an Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy Treatment with Stereotactic Radiotherapy Boost of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: A Case Study

Received 4 June 2009 ,Accepted 18 February 2010.

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Medical Dosimetry
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