@article{981312e22b1042ef878a4fd719b748db,
title = "Tomotherapy",
abstract = "Helical tomotherapy is an integrated radiotherapy technique which combines IMRT capabilities with CT image guidance in a single piece of equipment. The combination of the hardware and a series of processes make tomotherapy an ideal machine for image guided adaptive radiotherapy (IGART). This is the first helical tomotherapy system in clinical use. It employs 51 arc segments per rotation and has 64 binary leaves. This unrivalled modulation capability is especially useful to maintain homogeneous dose distributions to the target while avoiding neighboring normal tissue structures. Some tomotherapy characteristics, processes and capabilities are described.",
author = "Masayuki Matsuo and Kazuhiro Miwa and Jun Shinoda and Hironori Nishibori and Kouta Sakurai and Shinya Hayashi and Osamu Tanaka and Kazuhiro Otakara and Masayuki Kanematsu and Hiroaki Hoshi",
note = "Funding Information: From the University of ldYisconsinM edical School, Madison, WI.. This work was supported in part by the National Institutes of Heallh (CA48902); General Electric Medical Systems; the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center,{"} the Department of Medical Physics, the Department of Human Oncology, the Graduate School, and the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin; and Siemens Oncology Systems. T. R. Mackie aMP. Reckwerdt havef inancial interest in TomoT herapy, \[nc,w hich may participate in the commercialization of tomotherapy. Address reprint requests to T. Rockwell Mackie, PhD, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 1300 University Avenue, Room 1582, Madison, WI53706. Copyright 9 1999 by W.B. Saunders Company 1053-4296/99/0901-0008510.00/0",
year = "2008",
month = may,
language = "English",
volume = "22",
pages = "145--152",
journal = "Biotherapy",
issn = "0914-2223",
publisher = "Gan To Kagaku Ryohosha",
number = "3",
}
