Dosimetric experience with accelerated partial breast irradiation using image-guided interstitial brachytherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 48-55

  Major, Tibor ^a   Fröhlich, Georgina ^a   Lövey, Katalin ^a   Fodor, János ^a   Polgár, Csaba ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Accelerated partial breast irradiation; Breast cancer; Dose homogeneity and conformality; Image guided interstitial brachytherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; LUNG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SKIN; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CATHETERIZATION; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149247706     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.10.027     Document Type: Article

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