Proton-beam therapy: are physicists ignoring clinical realities?
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Proton‐beam therapy: are physicists ignoring clinical realities?
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1526-9914
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v16i3.5710