Extension of the NCAT phantom for the investigation of intra-fraction respiratory motion in IMRT using 4D Monte Carlo.

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Published in Phys Med Biol on February 16, 2010

Authors

Ross McGurk1, Joao Seco, Marco Riboldi, John Wolfgang, Paul Segars, Harald Paganetti

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. ross.mcgurk@duke.edu

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