Real-time in vivo dosimetry using micro-MOSFET detectors during intraoperative electron beam radiation therapy in early-stage breast cancer

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 213-216

  Ciocca, Mario ^a   Piazzi, Valeria ^a   Lazzari, Roberta ^a   Vavassori, Andrea ^a   Luini, Alberto ^a   Veronesi, Paolo ^a   Galimberti, Viviana ^a   Intra, Mattia ^a   Guido, Andrea ^a   Tosi, Giampiero ^a   Veronesi, Umberto ^a   Orecchia, Roberto ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Electrons; In vivo dosimetry; IORT; Mobile linear accelerator; MOSFET

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANISOTROPY; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON RADIATION; ELECTRON THERAPY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIBRATION; CATHETERIZATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FILM DOSIMETRY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSISTORS;

EID: 33644784881     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2005.11.011     Document Type: Article

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