Cardiac dose reduction during tangential breast irradiation using deep inspiration breath hold: a dose comparison study based on deformable image registration

BACKGROUND: Radiation therapy (RT) for a left-sided breast cancer often involves some incidental exposure of the heart and increase in the rate of major coronary events. One method to reduce the dose to the heart during a tangential breast irradiation is the deep inspiration breath hold (DIBH) techn...

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Autores principales: Joo, Ji Hyeon, Kim, Su Ssan, Ahn, Seung Do, Kwak, Jungwon, Jeong, Chiyoung, Ahn, Sei-Hyun, Son, Byung-Ho, Lee, Jong Won
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4696108/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26715382
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13014-015-0573-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4696108/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26715382
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13014-015-0573-7

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