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Improved abutment dosimetry in segmented-field electron conformal therapy

Richert, 2006

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Richert J
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Purpose: Segmented-field electron conformal therapy is characterized by dose heterogeneity due to unmatched penumbra of abutted fields of differing energy. The present work investigates the potential to decrease dose heterogeneity by approximately matching …
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