An analytical model for the upper bound estimation of respiratory motion-induced dose uncertainty in spot-scanning

Heng Li1, Xiaodong Zhang1, Yupeng Li1

  • 1Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

Medical Physics
|September 11, 2019
PubMed
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