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Target Volume Delineation and Treatment Planning for Particle Therapy

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  1. ProCure New Jersey, Somerset, NJ, USA

    Dennis Mah

  2. Shanghai Proton and Heavy Ion Center, Shanghai, China

    Michael Moyers

  3. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Ken Kang-Hsin Wang

  4. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Eric Diffenderfer

  5. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, NY, USA

    John Cuaron

  6. Northwestern Medicine, Chicago Proton Center, Warrenville, IL, USA

    Mark Pankuch

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA

    Nancy Y. Lee

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

    Jonathan E. Leeman

  3. Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

    Oren Cahlon

  4. Department of Medical Dosimetry, ProCure Proton Therapy Center, Somerset, New Jersey, USA

    Kevin Sine

  5. Department of Radiation Oncology, Shanghai Proton and Heavy Ion Center, Shanghai, China

    Guoliang Jiang

  6. Department of Radiation Oncology, Shanghai Proton and Heavy Ion Center, Shanghai, China

    Jiade J. Lu

  7. Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Stefan Both

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Mah, D., Moyers, M., Kang-Hsin Wang, K., Diffenderfer, E., Cuaron, J., Pankuch, M. (2018). Physics Essentials of Particle Therapy. In: Lee, N., et al. Target Volume Delineation and Treatment Planning for Particle Therapy. Practical Guides in Radiation Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42478-1_1

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