Clinical Implementation of Tangential Field Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) Using Sliding Window Technique and Dosimetric Comparison with 3D Conformal Therapy (3DCRT) in Breast Cancer

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 299-304

  Selvaraj, Raj N ^a,b   Beriwal, Sushil ^a,b   Pourarian, Roya J ^a   Lalonde, Ron J ^c   Chen, Alex ^a,b   Mehta, Kiran ^a,b   Brunner, Gwendolyn ^a,b   Wagner, Kathy A ^c   Yue, Ning J ^d   Huq, Saiful M ^a,b   Heron, Dwight E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

^c D3 Radiation Planning   (United States)

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

Author keywords

3DCRT; Breast cancer; Tangential field IMRT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG; MEASUREMENT; MONITOR; ORGAN SIZE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIDING WINDOW TECHNIQUE; STANDARD; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 35548940795     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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