Inverse-planned, dynamic, multi-beam, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT): A promising technique when target volume is the left breast and internal mammary lymph nodes

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 283-291

  Popescu, Carmen C ^a   Olivotto, Ivo ^a,b   Patenaude, Veronica ^a   Wai, Elaine ^a,b   Beckham, Wayne A ^a,c  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

IMRT; Internal mammary nodes; Inverse planning; Left breast

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; DYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IRRADIATION; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORAX WALL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 33750505422     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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