Dosimetric consequences of the shift towards computed tomography guided target definition and planning for breast conserving radiotherapy

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Van der Laan, Hans Paul ^a   Dolsma, Wil V ^a   Maduro, John H ^a   Korevaar, Erik W ^a   Langendijk, Johannes A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMAN; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 41549094454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-3-6     Document Type: Article

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