Contralateral breast doses measured by film dosimetry: Tangential techniques and an optimized IMRT technique

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 4743-4758

  Saur, S ^a,b   Fjellsboe, L M B ^b,c   Lindmo, T ^b   Frengen, J ^a  

^a TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAPSED CONES; CONTRALATERAL BREAST; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; FILM DOSIMETRY; GAFCHROMIC EBT; LEAD SHIELDING; MEAN DOSE; PENCIL BEAM; SKIN DOSE; THORAX PHANTOM;

DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; SHIELDING; SKIN;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ARTICLE; BREAST; COLLIMATOR; DOSE CALCULATION; FILM DOSIMETER; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; ALGORITHM; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION SCATTERING;

LEAD;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FILM DOSIMETRY; HUMANS; LEAD; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 70349778941     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/15/007     Document Type: Article

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