Optimal gantry angles and field sizes in kilovoltage cone-beam tomosynthesis for set-up of women with breast cancer undergoing radiotherapy treatment

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 633-638

  Lyatskaya, Yulia ^a   Buehler, Andreas ^b   Ng, Sook Kien ^a,b   Wong, Julia ^a   Bellon, Jennifer R ^a   Zygmanski, Piotr ^a  

^a Department of Radiation Oncology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast; CB TS; Imaging; Set up

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONE BEAM TOMOSYNTHESIS; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX WALL; TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC;

EID: 70449652452     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.10.016     Document Type: Article

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