A comparative dosimetric study for treating left-sided breast cancer for small breast size using five different radiotherapy techniques: Conventional tangential field, filed-in-filed, Tangential-IMRT, Multi-beam IMRT and VMAT

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Jin, Guang Hua ^a,b   Chen, Li Xin ^a   Deng, Xiao Wu ^a   Liu, Xiao Wei ^b   Huang, Ying ^a   Huang, Xiao Bo ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; DVH; IMRT; Left sided breast cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL TANGENTIAL FIELD RADIOTHERAPY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FILED IN FILED RADIOTHERAPY; HEART; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LUNG; MULTIBEAM INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; ORGAN SIZE; RADIATION DOSE; TANGENTIAL INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84876110878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-8-89     Document Type: Article

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