Scylla and Charybdis: Longer Beam-on Time or Lesser Conformality-the Dilemma of Tomotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 8-9

  Ling, C Clifton ^a,b   Archambault, Yves ^a   Bocanek, Jiri ^a   Zhang, Pengpeng ^b   LoSasso, Thomas ^b   Tang, Grace ^c  

^a VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LETTER; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 68649091997     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.01.075     Document Type: Letter

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