Extended collimator model for pencil-beam dose calculation in proton radiotherapy
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عنوان ژورنال: Physics in Medicine and Biology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0031-9155,1361-6560
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/19/006