Dosimetric characteristics of accelerated partial breast irradiation with CT image-based multicatheter interstitial brachytherapy: A single institution's experience

Brachytherapy

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 421-426

  Major, Tibor ^a   Polgár, Csaba ^a   Lövey, Katalin ^b   Fröhlich, Georgina ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b State Hospital Krems   (Austria)

Author keywords

Accelerated partial breast irradiation; Dose volume histogram analysis; Interstitial brachytherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HEART; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMPLANT; LUNG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SKIN; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052311040     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: 18731449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2010.12.006     Document Type: Article

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