Application of radiosurgery principles to a target in the breast: A dosimetric study

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1005-1010

  Jozsef, Gabor ^a   Luxton, Gary ^a,b   Formenti, Silvia C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Therapeutic radiology; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; DOSIMETRY; TUMORS;

ANGULAR INTERVALS; BREAST NEOPLASM; PHYSICAL FEASIBILITY; RADIATION TREATMENTS; SCATTERED RADIATIONS; SINGLE FRACTIONS; THERAPEUTIC RADIOLOGY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0034036574     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598965     Document Type: Article

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