Interobserver variations of target volume delineation in multicatheter partial breast brachytherapy after open cavity surgery

Brachytherapy

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 925-932

  Major, Tibor ^a   Gutiérrez, Cristina ^b   Guix, Benjamin ^c   Mózsa, Emoke ^d   Hannoun Levi, Jean Michel ^e   Lössl, Kristine ^f   Niehoff, Peter ^g   Resch, Alexandra ^h   van Limbergen, Erik ⁱ   Polgár, Csaba ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b CATALAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Spain)

^c IMOR Foundation   (Spain)

^d Institut of Radiooncology and Radiotherapy   (Austria)

^e CENTRE ANTOINE LACASSAGNE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Breast brachytherapy; Cavity delineation; Cavity visualization; Interobserver variation

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED PARTIAL BREAST IRRADIATION; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST IMPLANT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MULTICATHETER PARTIAL BREAST BRACHYTHERAPY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ONCOLOGIST; TREATMENT PLANNING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CATHETER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; ONCOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CATHETERS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84937596646     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: 18731449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2015.06.008     Document Type: Article

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