Helical tomotherapy as a means of delivering accelerated partial breast irradiation

Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 639-646

  Hui, Susanta K ^a,c   Das, Rupak K ^a   Kapatoes, Jeff ^b   Oliviera, Gustavo ^b   Becker, Stuart ^a   Odau, Heath ^a   Fenwick, John D ^a   Patel, Rakesh ^a   Kuske, Robert ^a   Mehta, Minesh ^a   Paliwal, Bhudatt ^a   Mackie, Thomas R ^a,b   Fowler, Jack F ^a   Welsh, James S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b TOMOTHERAPY INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Breast cancer; Helical tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HEART; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LUNG; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIATION DOSE; SKIN; THERAPY; THORAX WALL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 19944407546     PISSN: 15330346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153303460400300614     Document Type: Article

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