Analysis of coronary artery dosimetry in the 3-dimensional era: Implications for organ-at-risk segmentation and dose tolerances in left-sided tangential breast radiation

Practical Radiation Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Evans, Suzanne B ^a   Panigrahi, Babita ^a   Northrup, Veronika ^b   Patterson, Joseph ^a   Baldwin, Drew E ^c   Higgins, Susan A ^a   Moran, Meena S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Heart Institute at Virginia Mason   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT SIDED TANGENTIAL BREAST RADIATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIATION SAFETY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84875663827     PISSN: 18798500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prro.2012.06.007     Document Type: Article

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