Magnetic resonance imaging for adaptive cobalt tomotherapy: A proposal.

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Published in J Med Phys on October 01, 2006

Authors

Tomas Kron1, David Eyles, Schreiner L John, Jerry Battista

Author Affiliations

1: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia.

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