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Research Article

Comparison of Different Cell-cluster Models for Cell-level Dosimetry

J. Petteri Välimäki, Juha S. Lampinen, Antti A. Kuronen, Sami A. Ilvonen, Jiri Stepanek, Sauli E. Savolainen Medical Engineering Centre, Laboratory of Clinical Physiology and Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Helsinki University Central Hospital; Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland; Department of Radiology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland; Laboratory of Computational Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Electromagnetics Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Institute for Medical Radiobiology (MRI) of the University of Zurich; Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland; Department of Radiology and Laboratory Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland
Pages 92-97 | Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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