EP-1209: Replacing cheese phantom with octavius phantom for delivery quality assurance (DQA) in Helical Tomotherapy (HT)
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عنوان ژورنال: Radiotherapy and Oncology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0167-8140
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(15)33515-5