Dose modeling of noninvasive image-guided breast brachytherapy in comparison to electron beam boost and three-dimensional conformal accelerated partial breast irradiation

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 410-416

  Sioshansi, Shirin ^a,b,c   Rivard, Mark J ^a   Hiatt, Jessica R ^b   Hurley, Amanda A ^b   Lee, Yoojin ^a   Wazer, David E ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

APBI; Boost; Brachytherapy; Breast

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED PARTIAL BREAST IRRADIATION; APBI; BOOST; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST; CONVENTIONAL TREATMENTS; CT DATA; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE-VOLUME; IMAGE-GUIDED; MODEL VARIABLES; NORMAL TISSUE; ORTHOGONAL AXES; PARALLEL PLATES; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; TARGET TISSUES; TISSUE DEFORMATIONS; VIRTUAL POINTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRONS; IRIDIUM; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

IRIDIUM 192;

ACCELERATED PARTIAL BREAST IRRADIATION; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; NONINVASIVE IMAGE GUIDED BREAST BRACHYTHERAPY; PLANNING TARGET VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIATION; TISSUE SPARING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELECTRONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 79955627796     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.01.052     Document Type: Article

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