Virtual bolus for inversely planned intensity modulated radiotherapy in adjuvant breast cancer treatment;Virtueller bolus zur inversen bestrahlungsplanung bei intensitätsmodulierter radiotherapie des mammakarzinoms im rahmen der adjuvanten therapie

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 139-146

  Thilmann, Christoph ^a   Grosser, Karl Heinz ^a   Rhein, Bernhard ^a   Zabel, Angelika ^a   Wannenmacher, Michael ^b   Debus, Jürgen ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Inverse treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0036185914     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-002-0915-x     Document Type: Article

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