Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 96, Issue 3 , Pages 298-301 , September 2010

Patient setup for PET/CT acquisition in radiotherapy planning

  • Mary Coffey

      Affiliations

    • TCD School of Radiation Therapy, Trinity Centre for Health Science, Dublin, Ireland
    • ,
  • Aude Vaandering

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Department of Radiation Oncology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Avenue Hippocrate 10, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium.

Received 5 June 2010 ,Revised 17 July 2010 ,Accepted 29 July 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.07.020

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