How much should you worry about contaminant neutrons in spatially fractionated grid radiation therapy?

• Farshid Mahmoudi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Razi Herbal Medicines Research Center, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran

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• Najmeh Mohammadi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran

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• Meysam Haghighi,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Neuroimaging and Analysis Group, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Zahra Alirezaei,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Paramedicine, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran

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• Iraj Jabbari,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation Department of Nuclear Engineering, Faculty of Physics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

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• Nahid Chegeni ,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation

  * E-mail: chegeni-n@ajums.ac.ir (NC); gh-geraily@sina.tums.ac.ir (GG)

  Affiliation Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

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• Soheil Elmtalab,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Hector Rene Vega-Carrillo,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Academic Unit of Nuclear Studies, University Autonomous of Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7081-9084

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• Ali Kazemian,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Radiation Oncology Research Center, Cancer Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Ghazale Geraily ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources

  * E-mail: chegeni-n@ajums.ac.ir (NC); gh-geraily@sina.tums.ac.ir (GG)

  Affiliations Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Radiation Oncology Research Center, Cancer Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2616-5586

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• Amir Hossein Karimi

  Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1598-8934

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