The utilization of a 3-dimensional noncoplanar treatment plan to avoid pacemaker complications

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 92-96

  Riley, Beverly ^a   Garcia, John ^a   Guerrero, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

3D treatment planning; Dosimetry; Pacemaker; TLDs

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGING; MALE; PACEMAKER; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION PHYSICS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RISK ASSESSMENT; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 2942523218     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2004.03.013     Document Type: Article

References (3)

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3. AAPM Report No. 45. American Association of Physicists in Medicine; Management of Radiation Oncology Patients with Implanted Cardiac Pacemakers. Woodbury, NY