Evaluation of superficial dosimetry between treatment planning system and measurement for several breast cancer treatment techniques

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Akino, Yuichi ^a,b   Das, Indra J ^a   Bartlett, Gregory K ^a   Zhang, Hualin ^a   Thompson, Elizabeth ^a   Zook, Jennifer E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

algorithm; breast radiotherapy; buildup dose; superficial dose

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; MICROGRIDS; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

BREAST CANCER TREATMENT; BREAST RADIOTHERAPY; BUILDUP DOSE; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARDS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; SUPERFICIAL DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

DOSIMETRY;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; DOSIMETRY; FILM DOSIMETER; GAFCHROMIC EBT2 FILM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IRRADIATION; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; OPTIMAL DRUG DOSE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN SURFACE; TREATMENT PLANNING; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84872034643     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4770285     Document Type: Article

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