BioMed Research International
Volume 2014, Article ID 578137, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/578137
Can Melatonin Help Us in Radiation Oncology Treatments?
1Department of Medical Radiation Engineering, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Keshavarz Boulevard, Poursina Avenue, Tehran, Iran
3Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4Department of Radiology and Medical Physics, Faculty of Paramedicine, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
Received 24 February 2014; Accepted 15 April 2014; Published 11 May 2014
Academic Editor: Michele Rechia Fighera
Copyright © 2014 Ehsan Mihandoost et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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