Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 93, Issue 3 , Pages 633-638 , December 2009

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

  • Yulia Lyatskaya

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Boston, MA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St., Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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  • Andreas Buehler

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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  • Sook-Kien Ng

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Boston, MA, USA
    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
    • ,
  • Julia Wong

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Jennifer R. Bellon

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Piotr Zygmanski

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Boston, MA, USA

Received 14 May 2009 ,Revised 30 September 2009 ,Accepted 3 October 2009.

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PII: S0167-8140(09)00610-0

doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.10.016

Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 93, Issue 3 , Pages 633-638 , December 2009

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