Do All Patients of Breast Carcinoma Need 3-Dimensional CT-Based Planning? A Dosimetric Study Comparing Different Breast Sizes

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 140-144

  Munshi, Anusheel ^a   Pai, Rajeshri H ^a   Phurailatpam, Reena ^a   Budrukkar, Ashwini ^a   Jalali, Rakesh ^a   Sarin, Rajiv ^a   Deshpande, D D ^a   Shrivastava, Shyam K ^a   Dinshaw, Ketayun A ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

3DCRT; Breast carcinoma; Breast sizes

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST SIZE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX WALL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; ORGAN SIZE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65349195731     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2008.08.006     Document Type: Article

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