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spellingShingle Samei, Ehsan, Ria, Francesco, Tian, Xiaoyu, Segars, Paul W., Medical Physics, A database of 40 patient‐based computational models for benchmarking organ dose estimates in CT, General Medicine
title A database of 40 patient‐based computational models for benchmarking organ dose estimates in CT
title_full A database of 40 patient‐based computational models for benchmarking organ dose estimates in CT
title_fullStr A database of 40 patient‐based computational models for benchmarking organ dose estimates in CT
title_full_unstemmed A database of 40 patient‐based computational models for benchmarking organ dose estimates in CT
title_short A database of 40 patient‐based computational models for benchmarking organ dose estimates in CT
title_sort a database of 40 patient‐based computational models for benchmarking organ dose estimates in ct
title_unstemmed A database of 40 patient‐based computational models for benchmarking organ dose estimates in CT
topic General Medicine
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mp.14373