Minimising contralateral breast dose in post-mastectomy intensity-modulated radiotherapy by incorporating conformal electron irradiation

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 235-240

  van der Laan, Hans Paul ^a   Korevaar, Erik W ^a   Dolsma, Wil V ^a   Maduro, John H ^a   Langendijk, Johannes A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3D CRT; Breast cancer; Conformal electron irradiation; IMRT; Normal tissues

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LUNG; LYMPH NODE; MASTECTOMY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX WALL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; MASTECTOMY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THORACIC WALL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77249122504     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.12.015     Document Type: Article

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