Technical Advancement of Radiation Therapy

نویسندگان

  • Tsair-Fwu Lee
  • Jack Yang
  • Eng-Yen Huang
  • Chung-Chi Lee
  • Maria F Chan
  • An Liu
چکیده

1 Medical Physics and Informatics Laboratory, Department of Electronics Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan 2Department of Radiation Oncology, Institute for Advanced Radiation Oncology, Monmouth Medical Center, Barnabas Health, Long Branch, NJ 07740, USA 3Department of Radiation Oncology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung 833, Taiwan 4Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan 5Medical Physics Department, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 136 Mountain View Boulevard, Basking Ridge, NJ 07920, USA 6Department of Radiation Oncology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 91010, USA

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دوره 2014  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2014