Breast boost: Are we missing the target? A dosimetric comparison of two boost techniques

Cancer

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 905-909

  Benda, Rashmi K ^a,d   Yasuda, Gopika ^b   Sethi, Anil ^c   Gabram, Sheryl G A ^c   Hinerman, Russell W ^a   Mendenhall, Nancy Price ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Rush Copley Medical Center   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Computer assisted radiotherapy; Radiotherapy; Radiotherapy dosage; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037441612     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.11142     Document Type: Article

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