Dosimetric comparison of 3D conformal, IMRT, and V-MAT techniques for accelerated partial-breast irradiation (APBI)

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 152-158

  Qiu, Jian Jian ^a,b,c   Chang, Zheng ^a   Horton, Janet K ^a   Wu, Qing Rong Jackie ^a   Yoo, Sua ^a   Yin, Fang Fang ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI CANCER CENTER   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI); IMRT; Intensity modulated arc therapy; Volumetric modulated arc therapy (V MAT)

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED PARTIAL BREAST IRRADIATION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONFORMITY INDEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE VOLUME HISTOGRAM; DOSIMETRY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRRADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84899946090     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: 18734022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2013.12.001     Document Type: Article

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