A Dosimetric Analysis of IMRT and Multistatic Fields Techniques for Left Breast Radiotherapy

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 276-283

  Moon, Seong Kwon ^a   Kim, Yeon Sil ^b   Kim, Soo Young ^c   Lee, Mi Jo ^c   Keum, Hyun Sup ^c   Kim, Seung Jin ^c   Youn, Seon Min ^c  

^a Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^c Eulji University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; IMRT; Multistatic field technique; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EARLY CANCER; HEART; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG; MULTISTATIC FIELD TECHNIQUE RADIOTHERAPY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 79960900915     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: 18734022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2010.05.003     Document Type: Article

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