A two-source model for electron beams: calculation of relative output factors

J Z Chen1, J VanDyk, C Lewis

  • 1Department of Oncology, University of Western Ontario and London Regional Cancer Center, Canada. jchen@phy.rcc.on.ca

Medical Physics
|September 11, 2001
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