Kilovoltage rotational radiotherapy of breast cancer with the BriXS source

Kilovoltage rotational radiotherapy of breast cancer has been proposed as an alternative procedure to the conventional breast radiotherapy with 6 MeV photon beams. The use of orthovoltage X-ray tubes rotating around the breast, instead of conventional medical linear accelerators, would allow for significant reduction of acquisition and management costs. However, the employment of an X-ray tube limits the maximum available photon flux: a...