Improving dose homogeneity in large breasts by IMRT: Efficacy and dosimetric accuracy of different techniques

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 86-92

  Abo Madyan, Yasser ^a,b,c   Polednik, Martin ^a   Rahn, Angelika ^a   Schneider, Frank ^a   Dobler, Barbara ^a   Wenz, Frederik ^a   Lohr, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aperture based IMRT; Breast cancer; Three field breast treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IRRADIATION;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SIZE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38949093834     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-008-1730-9     Document Type: Article

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