Comparison of PDR brachytherapy and external beam radiation therapy in the case of breast cancer

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2585-2595

  Teymournia, L ^a   Berger, D ^b   Kauer Dorner, D ^b   Poljanc, K ^a   Seitz, W ^b   Aiginger, H ^a   Kirisits, C ^b  

^a TU WIEN   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICALLY EFFECTIVE DOSE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CT SLICES; DOSE RATE; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; DOSIMETRIC PARAMETER; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION THERAPY; IPSILATERAL LUNGS; JACKSON; LINEAR-QUADRATIC MODELS; LOW RADIATION; MEAN VALUES; NORMAL TISSUE; NORMAL TISSUE COMPLICATION PROBABILITIES; PDR BRACHYTHERAPY; TANGENTIAL PHOTON BEAMS; THRESHOLD DOSE; TOTAL DOSE;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DAMS; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; ONCOLOGY; TISSUE;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEART; HUMAN; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOMETRY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; PROBABILITY; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 67649107412     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/8/022     Document Type: Article

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