CT planning for breast cancer

Australasian Radiology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 289-295

  Lim, T S ^a   Petersen, V ^a   Zissiadis, Y ^a  

^a ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; CT planning; radiation toxicity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THORAX WALL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 34248382464     PISSN: 00048461     EISSN: 14401673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.2007.01732.x     Document Type: Article

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