Prospective assessment of optimal individual position (prone versus supine) for breast radiotherapy: Volumetric and dosimetric correlations in 100 patients

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 902-909

  Lymberis, Stella C ^a   De Wyngaert, John Keith ^a   Parhar, Preeti ^a   Chhabra, Arpit M ^a   Fenton Kerimian, Maria ^a   Chang, Jengwha ^a   Hochman, Tsivia ^a   Guth, Amber ^a   Roses, Daniel ^a   Goldberg, Judith D ^a   Formenti, Silvia C ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast radiotherapy; OAR; Prone; Supine

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; HEART; RADIOTHERAPY;

BREAST RADIOTHERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; METHODS AND MATERIALS; PRONE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPINE;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LUNG; LUNG VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGANS AT RISK; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION FIELD; SIMULATION; SUPINE POSITION; TREATMENT PLANNING; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FIDUCIAL MARKER; HISTOLOGY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORGAN SIZE; ORGANS AT RISK; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRONE POSITION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SUPINE POSITION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84872044457     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.01.040     Document Type: Article

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