A new plan quality objective function for determining optimal collimator combinations in prostate cancer treatment with stereotactic body radiation therapy using CyberKnife

• Maria Varnava ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Varnava, Iori Sumida, Hirokazu Mizuno

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mvarnava@radonc.med.osaka-u.ac.jp (MV); sumida@radonc.med.osaka-u.ac.jp (IS)

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Iori Sumida ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Varnava, Iori Sumida, Hirokazu Mizuno

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mvarnava@radonc.med.osaka-u.ac.jp (MV); sumida@radonc.med.osaka-u.ac.jp (IS)

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7669-0325

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• Hirokazu Mizuno ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Varnava, Iori Sumida, Hirokazu Mizuno

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Hiroya Shiomi ,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Miyakojima IGRT Clinic, Miyakojima-ku, Osaka, Japan

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• Osamu Suzuki ,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Carbon Ion Radiotherapy, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Yasuo Yoshioka,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kazuhiko Ogawa

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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