Comparison of electron IMRT to helical photon IMRT and conventional photon irradiation for treatment of breast and chest wall tumours

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 313-318

  Gauer, Tobias ^a   Engel, Konrad ^b   Kiesel, Antje ^b   Albers, Dirk ^a   Rades, Dirk ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Chest wall tumours; Electron MLC; Electron radiotherapy; Helical photon beams

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON THERAPY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHOMA; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMA; THORAX WALL TUMOR; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELECTRONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; THORACIC WALL;

EID: 77949280455     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.12.037     Document Type: Article

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