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Akimov D, An P, Awe C, Barbeau P, Becker B, Belov V, Bernardi I, Blackston M, Bock C, Bolozdynya A, Browning J, Cabrera-Palmer B, Chernyak D, Conley E, Daughhetee J, Detwiler J, Ding K, Durand M, Efremenko Y, Elliott S, Fabris L, Febbraro M, Galambos J, Gallo Rosso A, Galindo-Uribarri A, Green M, Heath M, Hedges S, Hoang D, Hughes M, Iverson E, Johnson T, Khromov A, Konovalov A, Kozlova E, Kumpan A, Li L, Link J, Liu J, Mann K, Markoff D, Mastroberti J, McIntyre M, Mueller P, Newby J, Parno D, Penttila S, Pershey D, Rapp R, Ray H, Raybern J, Razuvaeva O, Reyna D, Rich G, Rimal D, Ross J, Rudik D, Runge J, Salvat D, Salyapongse A, Scholberg K, Shakirov A, Simakov G, Sinev G, Snow W, Sosnovstsev V, Suh B, Tayloe R, Tellez-Giron-Flores K, Tolstukhin I, Trotter S, Ujah E, Vanderwerp J, Varner R, Virtue C, Visser G, Wongjirad T, Yen YR, Yoo J, Yu CH, Zettlemoyer J, Zhang S. Simulating the neutrino flux from the Spallation Neutron Source for the COHERENT experiment. Int J Clin Exp Med 2022. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.106.032003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Trigila C, Ariño-Estrada G, Kwon SI, Roncali E. The Accuracy of Cerenkov Photons Simulation in Geant4/Gate Depends on the Parameterization of Primary Electron Propagation. FRONTIERS IN PHYSICS 2022; 10:891602. [PMID: 37220601 PMCID: PMC10201934 DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2022.891602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Energetic electrons traveling in a dispersive medium can produce Cerenkov radiation. Cerenkov photons' prompt emission, combined with their predominantly forward emission direction with respect to the parent electron, makes them extremely promising to improve radiation detector timing resolution. Triggering gamma detections based on Cerenkov photons to achieve superior timing resolution is challenging due to the low number of photons produced per interaction. Monte Carlo simulations are fundamental to understanding their behavior and optimizing their pathway to detection. Therefore, accurately modeling the electron propagation and Cerenkov photons emission is crucial for reliable simulation results. In this work, we investigated the physics characteristics of the primary electrons (velocity, energy) and those of all emitted Cerenkov photons (spatial and timing distributions) generated by 511 keV photoelectric interactions in a bismuth germanate crystal using simulations with Geant4/GATE. Geant4 uses a stepwise particle tracking approach, and users can limit the electron velocity change per step. Without limiting it (default Geant4 settings), an electron mean step length of ~250 μm was obtained, providing only macroscopic modeling of electron transport, with all Cerenkov photons emitted in the forward direction with respect to the incident gamma direction. Limiting the electron velocity change per step reduced the electron mean step length (~0.200 μm), leading to a microscopic approach to its transport which more accurately modeled the electron physical properties in BGO at 511 keV. The electron and Cerenkov photons rapidly lost directionality, affecting Cerenkov photons' transport and, ultimately, their detection. Results suggested that a deep understanding of low energy physics is crucial to perform accurate optical Monte Carlo simulations and ultimately use them in TOF PET detectors.
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- Carlotta Trigila
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
- Department of Radiology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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Gu B, Muñoz-Santiburcio D, Da Pieve F, Cleri F, Artacho E, Kohanoff J. Bragg's additivity rule and core and bond model studied by real-time TDDFT electronic stopping simulations: The case of water vapor. Radiat Phys Chem Oxf Engl 1993 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2022.109961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Wu J, Xie Y, Ding Z, Li F, Wang L. Monte Carlo study of TG-43 dosimetry parameters of GammaMed Plus high dose rate 192 Ir brachytherapy source using TOPAS. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2021; 22:146-153. [PMID: 33955134 PMCID: PMC8200518 DOI: 10.1002/acm2.13252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2020] [Revised: 01/06/2021] [Accepted: 03/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To develop a simulation model for GammaMed Plus high dose rate 192 Ir brachytherapy source in TOPAS Monte Carlo software and validate it by calculating the TG-43 dosimetry parameters and comparing them with published data. METHODS We built a model for GammaMed Plus high dose rate brachytherapy source in TOPAS. The TG-43 dosimetry parameters including air-kerma strength SK , dose-rate constant Λ, radial dose function gL (r), and 2D anisotropy function F(r,θ) were calculated using Monte Carlo simulation with Geant4 physics models and NNDC 192 Ir spectrum. Calculations using an old 192 Ir spectrum were also carried out to evaluate the impact of incident spectrum and cross sections. The results were compared with published data. RESULTS For calculations using the NNDC spectrum, the air-kerma strength per unit source activity SK /A and Λ were 1.0139 × 10-7 U/Bq and 1.1101 cGy.h-1 .U-1 , which were 3.56% higher and 0.62% lower than the reference values, respectively. The gL (r) agreed with reference values within 1% for radial distances from 2 mm to 20 cm. For radial distances of 1, 3, 5, and 10 cm, the agreements between F(r,θ) from this work and the reference data were within 1.5% for 15° < θ < 165°, and within 4% for all θ values. The discrepancies were attributed to the updated source spectrum and cross sections. They caused deviations of the SK /A of 2.90% and 0.64%, respectively. As for gL (r), they caused average deviations of -0.22% and 0.48%, respectively. Their impact on F(r,θ) was not quantified for the relatively high statistical uncertainties, but basically they did not result in significant discrepancies. CONCLUSION A model for GammaMed Plus high dose rate 192 Ir brachytherapy source was developed in TOPAS and validated following TG-43 protocols, which can be used for future studies. The impact of updated incident spectrum and cross sections on the dosimetry parameters was quantified.
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- Jianan Wu
- Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055, China.,Department of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital & Shenzhen Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Shenzhen, 518116, China
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- Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital & Shenzhen Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Shenzhen, 518116, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Advanced Machine Learning and Application, College of Mathematics and Statistics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital & Shenzhen Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Shenzhen, 518116, China.,Department of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China
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Koval NE, Da Pieve F, Artacho E. Ab initio electronic stopping power for protons in Ga 0.5In 0.5P/GaAs/Ge triple-junction solar cells for space applications. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2020; 7:200925. [PMID: 33391793 PMCID: PMC7735329 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.200925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2020] [Accepted: 10/19/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Motivated by the radiation damage of solar panels in space, firstly, the results of Monte Carlo particle transport simulations are presented for proton impact on triple-junction Ga0.5In0.5P/GaAs/Ge solar cells, showing the proton projectile penetration in the cells as a function of energy. It is followed by a systematic ab initio investigation of the electronic stopping power (ESP) for protons in different layers of the cell at the relevant velocities via real-time time-dependent density functional theory calculations. The ESP is found to depend significantly on different channelling conditions, which should affect the low-velocity damage predictions, and which are understood in terms of impact parameter and electron density along the path. Additionally, we explore the effect of the interface between the layers of the multilayer structure on the energy loss of a proton, along with the effect of strain in the lattice-matched solar cell. Both effects are found to be small compared with the main bulk effect. The interface energy loss has been found to increase with decreasing proton velocity, and in one case, there is an effective interface energy gain.
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- Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy BIRA-IASB, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
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- CIC Nanogune BRTA, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
- Donostia International Physics Center DIPC, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
- Theory of Condensed Matter, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK
- Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, 48011 Bilbao, Spain
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Incerti S, Kyriakou I, Bernal MA, Bordage MC, Francis Z, Guatelli S, Ivanchenko V, Karamitros M, Lampe N, Lee SB, Meylan S, Min CH, Shin WG, Nieminen P, Sakata D, Tang N, Villagrasa C, Tran HN, Brown JMC. Geant4-DNA example applications for track structure simulations in liquid water: A report from the Geant4-DNA Project. Med Phys 2018; 45. [PMID: 29901835 DOI: 10.1002/mp.13048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2018] [Revised: 05/03/2018] [Accepted: 06/04/2018] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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This Special Report presents a description of Geant4-DNA user applications dedicated to the simulation of track structures (TS) in liquid water and associated physical quantities (e.g., range, stopping power, mean free path…). These example applications are included in the Geant4 Monte Carlo toolkit and are available in open access. Each application is described and comparisons to recent international recommendations are shown (e.g., ICRU, MIRD), when available. The influence of physics models available in Geant4-DNA for the simulation of electron interactions in liquid water is discussed. Thanks to these applications, the authors show that the most recent sets of physics models available in Geant4-DNA (the so-called "option4" and "option 6" sets) enable more accurate simulation of stopping powers, dose point kernels, and W-values in liquid water, than the default set of models ("option 2") initially provided in Geant4-DNA. They also serve as reference applications for Geant4-DNA users interested in TS simulations.
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- S Incerti
- University of Bordeaux, CENBG, UMR 5797, F-33170, Gradignan, France
- CNRS, IN2P3, CENBG, UMR 5797, F-33170, Gradignan, France
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- Medical Physics Laboratory, University of Ioannina Medical School, 45110, Ioannina, Greece
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- Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Université Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier, UMR1037 CRCT, Toulouse, France
- Inserm, UMR1037 CRCT, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Université Saint Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
- Illawarra Health & Medical Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
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- Geant4 Associates International Ltd., Hebden Bridge, UK
- Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
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- Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
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- Vicinity Centres, Data Science & Insights, Office Tower One, 1341 Dandenong Rd, Chadstone, Victoria, 3148, Australia
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- Proton Therapy Center, National Cancer Center, 323, Ilsan-ro, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
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- SymAlgo Technologies, 75 rue Léon Frot, 75011, Paris, France
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, Wonju, Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, Wonju, Korea
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- University of Bordeaux, CENBG, UMR 5797, F-33170, Gradignan, France
- CNRS, IN2P3, CENBG, UMR 5797, F-33170, Gradignan, France
- Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
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- IRSN, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sureté Nucléaire, 92262, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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- IRSN, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sureté Nucléaire, 92262, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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- Division of Nuclear Physics, Advanced Institute of Materials Science, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Faculty of Applied Sciences, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Department of Radiation Science and Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
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Ariño-Estrada G, Mitchell GS, Kwon SI, Du J, Kim H, Cirignano LJ, Shah KS, Cherry SR. Towards time-of-flight PET with a semiconductor detector. Phys Med Biol 2018; 63:04LT01. [PMID: 29364135 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/aaaa4e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The feasibility of using Cerenkov light, generated by energetic electrons following 511 keV photon interactions in the semiconductor TlBr, to obtain fast timing information for positron emission tomography (PET) was evaluated. Due to its high refractive index, TlBr is a relatively good Cerenkov radiator and with its wide bandgap, has good optical transparency across most of the visible spectrum. Coupling an SiPM photodetector to a slab of TlBr (TlBr-SiPM) yielded a coincidence timing resolution of 620 ps FWHM between the TlBr-SiPM detector and a LFS reference detector. This value improved to 430 ps FWHM by applying a high pulse amplitude cut based on the TlBr-SiPM and reference detector signal amplitudes. These results are the best ever achieved with a semiconductor PET detector and already approach the performance required for time-of-flight. As TlBr has higher stopping power and better energy resolution than the conventional scintillation detectors currently used in PET scanners, a hybrid TlBr-SiPM detector with fast timing capability becomes an interesting option for further development.
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- Gerard Ariño-Estrada
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States of America. Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed
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Gallas RR, Arico G, Burigo LN, Gehrke T, Jakůbek J, Granja C, Tureček D, Martišíková M. A novel method for assessment of fragmentation and beam-material interactions in helium ion radiotherapy with a miniaturized setup. Phys Med 2017; 42:116-126. [PMID: 29173904 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2017.09.126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2017] [Revised: 08/18/2017] [Accepted: 09/13/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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Radiotherapy with protons and carbon ions enables to deliver dose distributions of high conformation to the target. Treatment with helium ions has been suggested due to their physical and biological advantages. A reliable benchmarking of the employed physics models with experimental data is required for treatment planning. However, experimental data for helium interactions is limited, in part due to the complexity and large size of conventional experimental setups. We present a novel method for the investigation of helium interactions with matter using miniaturized instrumentation based on highly integrated pixel detectors. The versatile setup consisted of a monitoring detector in front of the PMMA phantom of varying thickness and a detector stack for investigation of outgoing particles. The ion type downstream from the phantom was determined by high-resolution pattern recognition analysis of the single particle signals in the pixelated detectors. The fractions of helium and hydrogen ions behind the used targets were determined. As expected for the stable helium nucleus, only a minor decrease of the primary ion fluence along the target depth was found. E.g. the detected fraction of hydrogen ions on axis of a 220MeV/u 4He beam was below 6% behind 24.5cm of PMMA. Monte-Carlo simulations using Geant4 reproduce the experimental data on helium attenuation and yield of helium fragments qualitatively, but significant deviations were found for some combinations of target thickness and beam energy. The presented method is promising to contribute to the reduction of the uncertainty of treatment planning for helium ion radiotherapy.
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- Raya R Gallas
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology (NCRO), Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology (HIRO), Heidelberg, Germany.
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology (NCRO), Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology (HIRO), Heidelberg, Germany; Heidelberg University Hospital, Department of Radiation Oncology, Im Neuenheimer Feld 400, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology (NCRO), Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology (HIRO), Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology (NCRO), Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology (HIRO), Heidelberg, Germany; Heidelberg University Hospital, Department of Radiation Oncology, Im Neuenheimer Feld 400, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Advacam s.r.o., Na Balkáně 2075/70, 130 00 Praha 3, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Horská 3a/22, 12800 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Advacam s.r.o., Na Balkáně 2075/70, 130 00 Praha 3, Czech Republic
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- Heidelberg University Hospital, Department of Radiation Oncology, Im Neuenheimer Feld 400, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology (NCRO), Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology (HIRO), Heidelberg, Germany
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