Unflattened photon beams from the standard flattening filter free accelerators for radiotherapy: Advantages, limitations and challenges.
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Sharma Sunil Dutt
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Radiological Physics and Advisory Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, CTCRS Building, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai - 400 094, India. E-mail:
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J Med Phys. 2011 Jul;36(3):123-5. doi: 10.4103/0971-6203.83464.
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