Citation: Megha Sharma, James C. L. Chow. Skin dose enhancement from the application of skin-care creams using FF and FFF photon beams in radiotherapy: A Monte Carlo phantom evaluation[J]. AIMS Bioengineering, 2020, 7(2): 82-90. doi: 10.3934/bioeng.2020008
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