Evaluation of organ-specific peripheral doses after 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional and hybrid intensity modulated radiation therapy for breast cancer based on Monte Carlo and convolution/superposition algorithms: Implications for secondary cancer risk assessment

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 33-41

  Joosten, Andreas ^a   Matzinger, Oscar ^a   Jeanneret Sozzi, Wendy ^a   Bochud, François ^a   Moeckli, Raphaël ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Breast; IMRT; Monte Carlo; Peripheral dose; Risk assessment; Secondary cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATION; CANCER PATIENT; DOSE CALCULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MASTECTOMY; METASTASIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; WHOLE BODY CT;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84874658111     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2012.11.012     Document Type: Article

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