Accounting for respiratory motion in partial breast intensity modulated radiotherapy during treatment planning: A new patient selection metric.

Abstract: Purpose: External beam partial breast irradiation intensity modulated radiotherapy (PBI IMRT) plans experience degradation in coverage and dose homogeneity when delivered during respiration. We examine which characteristics of the breast and seroma result in unacceptable plan degradation d...

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Publicado en:European Journal of Cancer Vol. 50; no. 11; pp. 1872 - 1880
Autores principales: Quirk, Sarah, Conroy, Leigh, Smith, Wendy L
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science Jul2014
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