과제정보
The authors would like to thank the Student Research Committee of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences for the financial support of this research. We are also thankful to the Medical Physics Research Center of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences and Radiation Therapy Department of Emam Reza Hospital for providing technical facilities. This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (No. RS-2023-00221186).
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