Treatment techniques for 3D conformal radiation to breast and chest wall including the internal mammary chain

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 7-12

  Sonnik, Deborah ^a   Selvaraj, Raj N ^a,b   Faul, Clare ^c   Gerszten, Kristina ^a,b   Heron, Dwight E ^a,b   King, Gwendolyn C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^d SENTARA NORFOLK GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

3D treatment planning; Dose volume histogram; Internal mammary nodes; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TARGET ORGAN; THORAX WALL; THREE DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; LYMPH NODES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; THORACIC WALL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33847082402     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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