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Authors contributions
T-Q . Nguyen : Conceptualization , methodology , writing original draft , writing – review & editing . T-M . Nguyen : acquisition , analysis data for the work , writing original draft . H-N . Tran : Supervision , writing-Reviewing and editing .
Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank Vietnam Society of Medical Physics for the updated statistics .
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