Dosimetric comparison of four different external beam partial breast irradiation techniques: Three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy, intensity-modulated radiotherapy, helical tomotherapy, and proton beam therapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 66-73

  Moon, Sung Ho ^a   Shin, Kyung Hwan ^a   Kim, Tae Hyun ^a   Yoon, Myonggeun ^a   Park, Soah ^a   Lee, Doo Hyun ^a   Kim, Jong Won ^a   Kim, Dae Woong ^a   Park, Sung Yong ^a   Cho, Kwan Ho ^a  

^a National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

3D conformal; Accelerated partial breast irradiation; Breast cancer; Comparison; Helical tomotherapy; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Protons

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PROTONS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149234266     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2008.09.027     Document Type: Article

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