Breast skin doses from brachytherapy using MammoSite® HDR, intensity modulated radiation therapy, and tangential fields techniques

Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-22

  Selvaraj, Raj N ^a   Bhatnagar, Ajay ^a   Beriwal, Sushil ^a   Huq, M Saiful ^a   Heron, Dwight E ^a   Sonnik, Debbie ^a   Brandner, Edward ^a   Surgent, Robert ^a   Mogus, Robert ^a   Deutsch, Melvin ^a   Gerszten, Kristina ^a   Wu, Andrew ^b   Kalnicki, Shalom ^c   Yue, Ning J ^d   Saw, Cheng B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

And Conventional; Breast cancer; IMRT; MammoSite ; Skin dose

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; RADIATION DOSE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

EID: 33847700144     PISSN: 15330346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153303460700600103     Document Type: Article

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