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Original Articles: BiGART 2021 Issue

Atlas-based auto-segmentation for delineating the heart and cardiac substructures in breast cancer radiation therapy

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Pages 247-254 | Received 25 Jun 2021, Accepted 05 Aug 2021, Published online: 24 Aug 2021

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