Improved heart, lung and target dose with deep inspiration breath hold in a large clinical series of breast cancer patients

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 28-32

  Nissen, Henrik D ^a   Appelt, Ane L ^a,b  

^a LILLEBAELT HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Deep inspiration breath hold; Heart dose; Target coverage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREATH HOLDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP INSPIRATION BREATH HOLD; HEART; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG; LUNG VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGANS AT RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84874646054     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2012.10.016     Document Type: Article

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