Choice of beam energy and dosimetric implications for radiation treatment in a subpopulation of women with large breasts in the United States and Japan

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 216-223

  Das, Indra J ^a   Shikama, Naoto ^b   Cheng, Chee Wai ^c   Solin, Lawrence J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c MORRISTOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam energy; Breast cancer; Hot spot; Radiation dose distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; JAPAN; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; THORAX WALL; UNITED STATES;

BODY WEIGHT; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; ORGAN SIZE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746927617     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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