A portable secondary dose monitoring system using scintillating fibers for proton therapy of prostate cancer: A Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation study
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1Department of Radiation Oncology, McLaren Regional Medical Center, Flint, Michigan, USA 2Department of Physics, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia, USA 3Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 4Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Received July 05, 2015; Revised January 29, 2016; Accepted February 07, 2016; Published Online February 12, 2016 Original Article
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