Coronary artery dosimetry in intact left breast irradiation

Cancer Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 492-497

  Storey, Mark R ^a,b   Munden, Randall ^a,b   Strom, Eric A ^a,b   McNeese, Marsha D ^a,b   Buchholz, Thomas A ^a,b  

^a University of Texas MD Andersen Cancer Center ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer irradiation; Coronary artery; Dose volume histogram

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; LUNG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; ARTERY; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ARTERIES; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMAN; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0035514848     PISSN: 15289117     EISSN: 1540336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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