Low dose out-of-field radiotherapy, part 2: Calculating the mean photon energy values for the out-of-field photon energy spectrum from scattered radiation using Monte Carlo methods
- 1 August 2017
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Cancer/Radiothérapie
- Vol. 21 (5) , 352-357
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