The influence of patient geometry on the selection of chest wall irradiation techniques in post-mastectomy breast cancer patients

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 69-77

  Ung, Yee C ^a   Sixel, Katharina E ^a   Bell, Christine ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chest wall; Electron arc; Tangents

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEART VOLUME; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LUNG VOLUME; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX WALL;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034306892     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(00)00224-3     Document Type: Article

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