High-dose-rate brachytherapy may be radiobiologically superior to low-dose rate due to slow repair of late-responding normal tissue cells
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
- Vol. 49 (1) , 183-189
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0360-3016(00)00810-5
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