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The correction that accounts for the effect of the difference in tissue density and composition between human body and water when simple dose calculation methods are used.
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Ma, C., Wang, L. (2013). Density Correction/Inhomogeneity Correction/Heterogeneity Correction. In: Brady, L.W., Yaeger, T.E. (eds) Encyclopedia of Radiation Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85516-3_719
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