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  1. To evaluate the safety and efficacy of particle therapy (PT) using pencil beam scanning (PBS) technique for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

    Authors: Jian Chen, Jiade J. Lu, Ningyi Ma, Jingfang Zhao, Chang Chen, Min Fan, Guoliang Jiang and Jingfang Mao
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:16
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  2. The aim of this study was to evaluate the ionizing radiation (IR) effects on rat bone 30 and 60 days after irradiation.

    Authors: Pedro Henrique Justino Oliveira Limirio, Priscilla Barbosa Ferreira Soares, Eduardo Tadashi Pinto Emi, Camila de Carvalho Almança Lopes, Flaviana Soares Rocha, Jonas Dantas Batista, Gustavo Davi Rabelo and Paula Dechichi
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:15
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  3. We created a scoring system incorporating dosimetric and clinical factors to assess the risk of severe, acute skin reactions in patients undergoing intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) to treat head an...

    Authors: Mitsue Kawamura, Michio Yoshimura, Hiromi Asada, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Yukinori Matsuo and Takashi Mizowaki
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:14
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  4. The selection of radiation therapy dose fractionation schedules for bone metastases is often based on the estimation of life expectancy. Therefore, accurate prognosis prediction is an important issue. It is re...

    Authors: Hikaru Kubota, Toshinori Soejima, Nor Shazrina Sulaiman, Shuhei Sekii, Yoko Matsumoto, Yosuke Ota, Kayoko Tsujino, Ikuo Fujita, Takuya Fujimoto, Masayuki Morishita, Junichi Ikegaki, Koji Matsumoto and Ryohei Sasaki
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:13
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  5. The purpose of this study was to compare automatically generated VMAT plans to find the superior beam configurations for Pinnacle3 Auto-Planning and share “best practices”.

    Authors: Anne Richter, Florian Exner, Klaus Bratengeier, Bülent Polat, Michael Flentje and Stefan Weick
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:12
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  6. The implementation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guided radiotherapy (RT) continues to increase. Very limited in-vitro data on the interaction of ionizing radiation and magnetic fields (MF) have been pub...

    Authors: B. Yudhistiara, F. Zwicker, K. J. Weber, P. E. Huber, A. Ruehle, S. Brons, P. Haering, J. Debus and S. H. Hauswald
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:11
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  7. The aim of this study is to evaluate the prognostic value of grading MRI–detected skull-base invasion in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) with skull-base invasion after intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT).

    Authors: Yanru Feng, Caineng Cao, Qiaoying Hu and Xiaozhong Chen
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:10
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  8. Induction chemotherapy (IC) now is gaining recognition for the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). The current study was conducted to examine the association between prognosis and the interval between...

    Authors: Liang Peng, Jin-Qi Liu, Cheng Xu, Xiao-Dan Huang, Ling-Long Tang, Yu-Pei Chen, Ying Sun and Jun Ma
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:9
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  9. The optimal care for pT3N0 rectal cancer remains controversial. And whether tumor location can be used to guide the administration of adjuvant radiotherapy for pT3N0 rectal cancer is not fully confirmed. The c...

    Authors: Hai-hua Peng, Xin-hui Zhou, Tong-chong Zhou, Xing-sheng Qiu and Kai-yun You
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:8
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  10. Lung dose-volume histogram (DVH) in radiotherapy could be calculated from multiple normal lung definitions. The lung dosimetric parameters generated from various approaches are significantly different. However...

    Authors: Yinnan Meng, Haihua Yang, Wei Wang, Xingni Tang, Caiping Jiang, Yichao Shen and Wei Luo
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:7
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  12. Radiation caries is a complication of radiotherapy characterized by enamel erosion and dentin exposure. The mechanisms of characteristic radiation caries formation are not well-understood. The aim of this stud...

    Authors: Hui Lu, Qi Zhao, Jiang Guo, Binghui Zeng, Xinlin Yu, Dongsheng Yu and Wei Zhao
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:5
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  13. We performed a prospective phase II study to compare acute toxicity among five different hypofractionated schedules using proton therapy. This study was an exploratory analysis to investigate the secondary end...

    Authors: Boram Ha, Kwan Ho Cho, Kang Hyun Lee, Jae Young Joung, Yeon-Joo Kim, Sung Uk Lee, Hyunjung Kim, Yang-Gun Suh, Sung Ho Moon, Young Kyung Lim, Jong Hwi Jeong, Haksoo Kim, Weon Seo Park and Sun Ho Kim
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:4
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  14. This study was conducted to investigate a new short-course radiotherapy regimen for patients with metastatic hormone refractory prostate cancer (HRPC) presenting with a dominant debilitating symptom.

    Authors: Jesper Carl, Dirk Rades, Claudia Doemer, Cornelia Setter, Jürgen Dunst and Niels Henrik Holländer
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:3
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  15. Advanced radiotherapy (RT) techniques allow normal tissue to be spared in patients with extremity soft tissue sarcoma (STS). This work aims to evaluate toxicity and outcome after neoadjuvant image-guided radio...

    Authors: Jan C. Peeken, Christoph Knie, Kerstin A. Kessel, Daniel Habermehl, Severin Kampfer, Hendrik Dapper, Michal Devecka, Rüdiger von Eisenhart-Rothe, Katja Specht, Wilko Weichert, Klaus Wörtler, Carolin Knebel, Jan J. Wilkens and Stephanie E. Combs
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:2
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  16. Due to the heterogeneity of patient’s individual respiratory motion pattern in lung stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), treatment planning dose assessment using a traditional four-dimensional computed tomog...

    Authors: Gang Liu, Fala Hu, Xuanfeng Ding, Xiaoqiang Li, Qihong Shao, Yuenan Wang, Jing Yang and Hong Quan
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:1
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  17. Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) can recur in the brain after whole-brain irradiation (WBI). We documented outcomes after treatment of such recurrences and sought predictors of local control and overall survival ...

    Authors: Ryoko Suzuki, Xiong Wei, Pamela K. Allen, James W. Welsh, James D. Cox, Ritsuko Komaki and Steven H. Lin
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:258
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  18. Local progression-free survival (LPFS = stable or improved motor function/resolution of paraplegia during RT without in-field recurrence following RT) is important when treating metastatic spinal cord compress...

    Authors: Dirk Rades, Antonio J. Conde-Moreno, Jon Cacicedo, Theo Veninga, Barbara Segedin, Karmen Stanic and Steven E. Schild
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:257
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  19. PRIMO is a dose verification system based on the general-purpose Monte Carlo radiation transport code penelope, which implements an accurate physics model of the interaction cross sections and the radiation trans...

    Authors: Miguel Rodriguez, Josep Sempau, Christian Bäumer, Beate Timmermann and Lorenzo Brualla
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:256
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  20. Elective use of radiation therapy to treat regionally involved lymph nodes (LNs) after radical surgery for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is controversial. We studied metastasis patterns through a p...

    Authors: Xiaofei Zhang, Xi Yang, Jianjiao Ni, Yida Li, Liqing Zou, Li Chu, Xiao Chu, Fan Xia and Zhengfei Zhu
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:255
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  21. This study aimed to evaluate the inter-fraction set-up error and intra-fraction motion during reverse semi-decubitus (RSD) breast radiotherapy, and to determine a planning target volume (PTV) margin.

    Authors: Jie Lee, Shih-Hua Liu, Jhen-Bin Lin, Meng-Hao Wu, Chieh-Ju Wu, Hung-Chi Tai, Shih-Ming Hsu, Yin-Ju Chen, Jo-Chiao Tai and Yu-Jen Chen
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:254
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  22. Although stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) for vestibular schwannoma has demonstrated excellent local control rates, hearing deterioration is often reported after treatment. We therefore wished to assess the cha...

    Authors: A. van Linge, R. van Os, N. Hoekstra, B. Heijmen, L. Stienstra, A. Dallenga, J. Wolbers and A. Mendez Romero
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:253
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  23. Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) has emerged as a common adjuvant modality used with surgery for resectable brain metastases (BMs). However, the optimal sequence of the multi-modality therapy has not been estab...

    Authors: Wei X. Huff, Namita Agrawal, Scott Shapiro, James Miller, Charles Kulwin, Mitesh Shah, Jesse J. Savage, Troy Payner, Alexander Vortmeyer, Gordon Watson and Mahua Dey
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:252
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  24. The dismal overall survival (OS) prognosis of glioblastoma, even after trimodal therapy, can be attributed mainly to the frequent incidence of intracranial relapse (ICR), which tends to present as an in-field ...

    Authors: Sebastian Zschaeck, Peter Wust, Reinhold Graf, Martin Misch, Julia Onken, Pirus Ghadjar, Harun Badakhshi, Julian Florange, Volker Budach and David Kaul
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:251
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  25. The role of the dose escalation strategy in brain radiotherapy for small cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients with brain metastases (BMs) has not been identified. This study aims to determine whether an additional...

    Authors: Han Sun, Liming Xu, Youyou Wang, Junhua Zhao, Kunpeng Xu, Jing Qi, Zhiyong Yuan, Lujun Zhao and Ping Wang
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:250
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  26. Concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) is effective in the treatment of locally advanced cervical squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). However, whether treatment outcomes of cervical adenocarcinoma are equivalent to SC...

    Authors: Ke Hu, Weiping Wang, Xiaoliang Liu, Qingyu Meng and Fuquan Zhang
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:249
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  27. To report our experience in planning and delivering total marrow irradiation (TMI) and total marrow and lymphatic irradiation (TMLI) in patients with hematologic malignancies.

    Authors: Zhirong Bao, Hongli Zhao, Dajiang Wang, Jian Gong, Yahua Zhong, Yu Xiong, Di Deng, Conghua Xie, An Liu, Xiaoyong Wang and Hui Liu
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:248
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  28. The survival benefit of PCI in ES-SCLC reported by a European randomized trial (RCT) in 2007 was not replicated by a Japanese RCT published in 2017. This study aimed to evaluate the uptake of PCI before and af...

    Authors: Yu Yang Soon, Huili Zheng, Shaun Zhirui Ho, Wee Yao Koh, Cheng Nang Leong, Jeremy Chee Seong Tey, Balamurugan Vellayappan, Swee Peng Yap, Ivan Weng Keong Tham and Kam Weng Fong
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:247
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  29. The standard treatment for superficial esophageal cancer (SEC) involving muscularis mucosal (T1a-MM) or submucosal (T1b) invasion has been the surgical resection of the esophagus. However, esophagectomy with e...

    Authors: Gen Suzuki, Hideya Yamazaki, Norihiro Aibe, Koji Masui, Naomi Sasaki, Daisuke Shimizu, Takuya Kimoto, Atsushi Shiozaki, Osamu Dohi, Hitoshi Fujiwara, Takeshi Ishikawa, Hirotaka Konishi, Yuji Naito, Eigo Otsuji and Kei Yamada
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:246
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  30. Oesophageal cancer with airway invasion presents a challenge for therapy and often has serious complications. We analysed the clinical outcomes of radiation therapy (RT) in patients with clinical T4b oesophage...

    Authors: Hakyoung Kim, Dongryul Oh, Yong Chan Ahn, Keunchil Park, Myung-Ju Ahn, Se-Hoon Lee, Jong-Mu Sun, Young Mog Shim, Jae Ill Zo, Yong Soo Choi, Hong Kwan Kim and Jong Ho Cho
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:245
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  32. Dose calculations in intraoperative electron radiation therapy (IOERT) rely on the conventional assumption of water-equivalent tissues at the applicator end, which defines a flat irradiation surface. However, ...

    Authors: Verónica García-Vázquez, Begoña Sesé-Lucio, Felipe A. Calvo, Juan J. Vaquero, Manuel Desco and Javier Pascau
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:243
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  33. Since the introduction of tumor tracking in radiotherapy, it is possible to ensure a precise irradiation of moving targets. To follow the tumor movement, most systems rely on the detection of implanted markers...

    Authors: Marc Ziegler, Tobias Brandt, Sebastian Lettmaier, Rainer Fietkau and Christoph Bert
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:242
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  34. Automatic multi-criteria optimization is necessary for intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) because of low planning efficiency and large plan quality uncertainty in current clinical practice. Most stud...

    Authors: Yanhua Mai, Fantu Kong, Yiwei Yang, Linghong Zhou, Yongbao Li and Ting Song
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:241
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  35. Advanced clinical applications, such as dose accumulation and adaptive radiation therapy, require deformable image registration (DIR) algorithms capable of voxel-wise accurate mapping of treatment dose or func...

    Authors: An Qin, Dan Ionascu, Jian Liang, Xiao Han, Nicolette O’Connell and Di Yan
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:240
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  36. Peer review systems within radiation oncology are important to ensure quality radiation care. Several individualized methods for radiation oncology peer review have been described. However, despite the importa...

    Authors: Ashley A. Albert, William N. Duggar, Rahul P. Bhandari, Toms Vengaloor Thomas, Satyaseelan Packianathan, Robert M. Allbright, Madhava R. Kanakamedala, Divyang Mehta, Chunli Claus Yang and Srinivasan Vijayakumar
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:239
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  37. Volumetric shrinkage of normal tissues such as salivary glands, kidneys, hippocampus are observed after radiotherapy. We aimed to assess the alterations in pancreatic volume of patients who received abdominal ...

    Authors: Cengiz Gemici, Gokhan Yaprak, Sevim Ozdemir, Tamer Baysal, Ozgur Ozan Seseogullari and Hazan Ozyurt
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:238
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  38. Neoadjuvant radio- or chemoradiation (nIRT) therapy is the standard treatment for loco-regional advanced rectal cancer patients of the lower or middle third. Currently, intensity modulated radiation therapy (I...

    Authors: Hendrik Dapper, Iván Rodríguez, Stefan Münch, Jan C. Peeken, Kai Borm, Stephanie E. Combs and Daniel Habermehl
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:237
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  39. To introduce the benefits of tangent-based volumetric modulated arc therapy (TVMAT), an innovative radiotherapy planning technique, compared with traditional volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) for advance...

    Authors: Pei-Chieh Yu, Ching-Jung Wu, Hsin-Hua Nien, Louis Tak Lui, Suzun Shaw and Yu-Lun Tsai
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:236
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  40. To compare the clinical outcome in prostate cancer patients treated with radiotherapy using two forms of image guidance: bone-based (BB) or fiducial-based (FB).

    Authors: Aleksandra Napieralska, Wojciech Majewski, Roland Kulik, Grzegorz Głowacki and Leszek Miszczyk
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:235
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  41. The aim of this study was to evaluate long-term efficacy and survival prognostic factors of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for un-resectable liver metastases in patients enrolled in a prospective p...

    Authors: Marta Scorsetti, Tiziana Comito, Elena Clerici, Ciro Franzese, Angelo Tozzi, Cristina Iftode, Lucia Di Brina, Pierina Navarria, Pietro Mancosu, Giacomo Reggiori, Antonella Fogliata, Stefano Tomatis, Guido Torzilli and Luca Cozzi
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:234
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  42. The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy and safety of concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) versus chemotherapy alone for patients with stage IV esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC).

    Authors: Jiahua Lyu, Tao Li, Qifeng Wang, Fang Li, Peng Diao, Li Liu, Churong Li and Jinyi Lang
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:233
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  43. The usefulness of particle therapy for skull base chordoma has not been established. The aim of this retrospective study was to analyse the treatment outcomes of proton therapy (PT) and carbon ion therapy (CIT...

    Authors: Masaru Takagi, Yusuke Demizu, Fumiko Nagano, Kazuki Terashima, Osamu Fujii, Dongcun Jin, Masayuki Mima, Yasue Niwa, Kuniaki Katsui, Masaki Suga, Tomohiro Yamashita, Takashi Akagi, Koh-ichi Sakata, Nobukazu Fuwa and Tomoaki Okimoto
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:232
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  44. Tangent-based intensity modulated radiation therapy (TIMRT) is a common adjuvant radiotherapy strategy for breast cancer patients. This study compared the dosimetric characteristics of tangent-based volumetric...

    Authors: Pei-Chieh Yu, Ching-Jung Wu, Yu-Lun Tsai, Suzun Shaw, Shih-Yu Sung, Louis Tak Lui and Hsin-Hua Nien
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:231
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  45. To evaluate the treatment outcome and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) change after stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for localized prostate cancer.

    Authors: Younghee Park, Hae Jin Park, Won Il Jang, Bae Kwon Jeong, Hun-Jung Kim and Ah Ram Chang
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:230
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  46. A new strategy is introduced combining the use of Multi-Criteria Optimization-based Trade-Off Exploration (TO) and RapidPlan™ (RP) for the selection of optimisation parameters that improve the trade-off betwee...

    Authors: Eliane Miguel-Chumacero, Garry Currie, Abigail Johnston and Suzanne Currie
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:229
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  47. Neoadjuvant radio(chemo)therapy of non-metastasized, borderline resectable or unresectable locally advanced pancreatic cancer is complex and prone to cause side-effects, e.g., in gastrointestinal organs. Inten...

    Authors: Sarah Stefanowicz, Kristin Stützer, Sebastian Zschaeck, Annika Jakobi and Esther G. C. Troost
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:228
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  48. The ano-inguinal lymphatic drainage (AILD) is located in the subcutaneous adipose tissue of the proximal medial thigh. Currently, there are no recommendations for an inclusion of the ‘true’ AILD in the clinica...

    Authors: Hendrik Dapper, Markus Oechsner, Christoph Hirche, Stefan Münch, Christina Sauter, Kai Borm, Jan C. Peeken, Stephanie E. Combs and Daniel Habermehl
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:227
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  50. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported that one of the authors’ names was processed incorrectly.

    Authors: J. Krayenbuehl, M. Zamburlini, S. Ghandour, M. Pachoud, S. Tanadini-Lang, J. Tol, M. Guckenberger and W. F. A. R. Verbakel
    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2018 13:225
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    The original article was published in Radiation Oncology 2018 13:170

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