Surface Dose in the Treatment of Breast Cancer with Helical Tomotherapy

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 185, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 574-581

  Zibold, Felix ^a   Sterzing, Florian ^a   Sroka Perez, Gabriele ^a   Schubert, Kai ^a   Wagenknecht, Katja ^a   Major, Gerald ^a   Debus, Jürgen ^a   Herfarth, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breathing motion; Surface dose; TLD; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; RADIATION DOSE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349194923     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-009-1979-7     Document Type: Article

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