Intensity modulation to improve dose uniformity with tangential breast radiotherapy: Initial clinical experience

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1559-1568

  Kestin, Larry L ^a   Sharpe, Michael B ^a   Frazier, Robert C ^a   Vicini, Frank A ^a   Yan, Di ^a   Matter, Richard C ^a   Martinez, Alvaro A ^a   Wong, John W ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Breast conserving therapy; Intensity modulation; Lumpectomy; Radiotherapy; Tangent fields

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; FILM DOSIMETER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG; LUNG PARENCHYMA; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; SKIN TOXICITY; TECHNIQUE; TOXICITY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034566054     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)01396-1     Document Type: Article

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