IMRT for the breast: A comparison of tangential planning techniques

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1231-1241

  Smith, Wendy ^a,b   Menon, Geetha ^c,d   Wolfe, Nathan ^b   Ploquin, Nicolas ^e   Trotter, Theresa ^a,b   Pudney, Delia ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e OTTAWA REGIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^f SINGLETON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER TREATMENT; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; EARLY-STAGE BREAST CANCER; EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSE; HOMOGENEITY INDEX; PLAN-BASED; PLANNING TECHNIQUES; PLANNING TIME; SUPINE POSITION; TREATMENT PLANS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TIME;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 76849110821     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/4/022     Document Type: Article

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