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Remeijer, P., van Herk, M. (2006). Imaging for IMRT. In: Bortfeld, T., Schmidt-Ullrich, R., De Neve, W., Wazer, D.E. (eds) Image-Guided IMRT. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-30356-1_3

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