Humbling Advances in Technology: Protons, Brainstem Necrosis, and the Self-Driving Car

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Shannon M MacDonald et al. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2017.

. 2017 Feb 1;97(2):216-219.

doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.08.001.

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