Prone versus supine positioning for whole and partial-breast radiotherapy: A comparison of non-target tissue dosimetry

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 178-184

  Kirby, Anna M ^a   Evans, Philip M ^b   Donovan, Ellen M ^a   Convery, Helen M ^a   Haviland, Joanna S ^b   Yarnold, John R ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cardiac dosimetry; Partial breast irradiation; Prone breast radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LUNG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTIAL BREAST IRRADIATION; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION FIELD; SUPINE POSITION; THORAX WALL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; WHOLE BREAST IRRADIATION;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; PRONE POSITION; RADIOMETRY; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 77955717231     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.05.014     Document Type: Article

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