Effect of breast volume on treatment reproducibility on a tomotherapy unit in the treatment of breast cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 417-421

  Offerman, Shannon ^a   Lamba, Michael ^a   Lavigne, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast volume; Image guidance; Tomotherapy; Treatment reproducibility

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST VOLUME; IMAGE GUIDANCE; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT REPRODUCIBILITY;

CORRELATION METHODS; DISEASES; IMAGE FUSION; PATIENT TREATMENT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM ERROR; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATION; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; ORGAN SIZE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79955600223     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.02.022     Document Type: Article

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