Tomotherapy and multifield intensity-modulated radiotherapy planning reduce cardiac doses in left-sided breast cancer patients with unfavorable cardiac anatomy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 104-110

  Coon, Alan B ^a   Dickler, Adam ^b   Kirk, Michael C ^c   Liao, Yixiang ^a   Shah, Anand P ^a   Strauss, Jonathan B ^a   Chen, Sea ^a   Turian, Julius ^a   Griem, Katherine L ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center   (United States)

^c Massachusetts General North Shore Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cardiotoxicity; IMRT; Radiation; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

BEAM ANGLE; BREAST CANCER; CARDIAC ANATOMY; CARDIAC VOLUME; CARDIOTOXICITY; CONTRALATERAL BREAST; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; HIGH DOSE; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; IPSILATERAL LUNGS; LEFT VENTRICLES; MEAN DOSE; MULTI-FIELD; RADIATION TREATMENTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; TOMOTHERAPY;

HEART; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARDIAC CONTACT DISTANCE IN THE AXIAL PLANE; CARDIAC CONTACT DISTANCE IN THE PARASAGITTAL PLANE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAXIMUM HEART DEPTH; MORBIDITY; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RISK REDUCTION; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 77955877165     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.07.1705     Document Type: Article

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