Superiority of Equivalent Uniform Dose (EUD)-Based Optimization for Breast and Chest Wall*

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 67-76

  Mihailidis, Dimitris N ^a   Plants, Brian ^a   Farinash, Lloyd ^a   Harmon, Michael ^a   Whaley, Lewis ^a   Raja, Prem ^a   Tomara, Pelagia ^a  

^a Charleston Radiation Therapy Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; Chest wall; Equivalent uniform dose; IMRT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSE; FEMALE; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LUNG STRUCTURE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION HAZARD; THORAX WALL CANCER; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 75149129613     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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