Chest wall irradiation with MLC-shaped photon and electron fields

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1205-1217

  Essers, Marion ^a   Eggen, Marcel ^a   Binnekamp, Dirk ^a   Creutzberg, Carien L ^a   Heijmen, Ben J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chest wall; Electron beams; In vivo dosimetry; MLC; Photon beams

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; FILM DOSIMETER; HUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TECHNIQUE; THORAX WALL;

AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; MASTECTOMY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; PHYSICS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THORAX;

EID: 0034333294     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)00722-7     Document Type: Article

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