Effects of positioning uncertainty and breathing on dose delivery and radiation pneumonitis prediction in breast cancer

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 471-485

  Mavroidis, Panayiotis ^a   Axelsson, Sofie ^a   Hyödynmaa, Simo ^a   Rajala, Juha ^a   Pitkänen, Maunu A ^a   Lind, Bengt K ^a   Brahme, Anders ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IRRADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

BREATHING;

ONCOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BREAST CANCER; BREATHING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOSE CALCULATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG COMPLICATION; LUNG VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; RADIOFREQUENCY; TECHNIQUE; TIDAL VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; POSTURE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION PNEUMONITIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RESPIRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036403697     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/028418602320405078     Document Type: Article

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