Using a thermoluminescent dosimeter to evaluate the location reliability of the highest-skin dose area detected by treatment planning in radiotherapy for breast cancer

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 348-353

  Sun, Li Min ^a   Huang, Chih Jen ^b,c   Chen, Hsiao Yun ^b   Meng, Fan Yun ^a   Lu, Tsung Hsien ^a   Tsao, Min Jen ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG ARMED FORCES GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Radiotherapy; Thermoluminescent dosimeter; Treatment planning system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLA; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CHI SQUARE TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; RELIABILITY; SKIN MANIFESTATION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VERY ELDERLY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANS AT RISK; PROCEDURES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIODERMATITIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIODERMATITIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY;

EID: 84927691153     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: 18734022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2014.06.002     Document Type: Article

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