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    Uwe Oelfke, Simeon Nill & Jan J. Wilkens

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Oelfke, U., Nill, S., Wilkens, J.J. (2006). Physical Optimization. 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_4

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