Numerical assessment of radiation binary targeted therapy for HER-2 positive breast cancers: Advanced calculations and radiation dosimetry

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 4245-4264

  Gonçalves Carralves, Manuel L Sztejnberg ^a   Jevremovic, Tatjana ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; NEUTRON SOURCES; ONCOLOGY;

HER-2 POSITIVE BREAST CANCERS; RADIATION BINARY TARGETED THERAPY; RADIATION SKIN DOSES;

RADIOTHERAPY;

BORON; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SKIN;

BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2;

EID: 34547372204     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/14/015     Document Type: Article

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