A study on contralateral breast surface dose for various tangential field techniques and the impact of set-up error on this dose

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 42-45

  Prabhakar, Ramachandran ^a   Haresh, K P ^a   Julka, P K ^a   Ganesh, T ^a   Rath, G K ^a   Joshi, R C ^a   Sasindran, M ^a   Naik, K K ^a   Sridhar, P S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE ROTARY CANCER HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Contralateral breast dose; Enhanced dynamic wedge; IMRT; MOSFET

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; IRRADIATION; MOSFET DEVICES; RADIOTHERAPY; SKIN;

BREAST CANCER; CONTRALATERAL BREAST (CLB) CANCER; CONTRALATERAL BREAST SURFACE DOSE; RADIATION ONCOLOGY;

ONCOLOGY;

ARTICLE; AXILLA; BREAST CANCER; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; NIPPLE; PHANTOM; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; THERAPEUTIC ERROR;

EID: 34247862191     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03178408     Document Type: Article

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