Accelerator beam data commissioning equipment and procedures: report of the TG-106 of the Therapy Physics Committee of the AAPM. (Q33374590)

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Accelerator beam data commissioning equipment and procedures: report of the TG-106 of the Therapy Physics Committee of the AAPM. (English)

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Timothy C Zhu

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Indra J Das

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Chee-Wai Cheng

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Ronald J Watts

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Anders Ahnesjö

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John Gibbons

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X Allen Li

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Jessica Lowenstein

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Raj K Mitra

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William E Simon

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TG-106 of the Therapy Physics Committee of the AAPM

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English

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1 September 2008

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30

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Medical Physics

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35

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9

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4186-4215

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American Association of Physicists in Medicine Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group 53: quality assurance for clinical radiotherapy treatment planning.

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1118/1.2969070

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26 July 2017

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