International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics
Volume 75, Issue 1 , Pages 8-9 , 1 September 2009

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

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PII: S0360-3016(09)00327-7

doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.01.075

International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics
Volume 75, Issue 1 , Pages 8-9 , 1 September 2009

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