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  1. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    Jeremy Setton, Nadeem Riaz & Nancy Y. Lee

  2. ProCure Proton Therapy Center, Somerset, NJ, USA

    Pamela Fox & Kevin Sine

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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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Setton, J., Fox, P., Sine, K., Riaz, N., Lee, N.Y. (2018). Tumors of the Nasopharynx. 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_4

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