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Safely prolonging single breath-holds to >5 min in patients with cancer; feasibility and applications for radiotherapy

OBJECTIVE: Multiple, short and deep inspiratory breath-holds with air of approximately 20 s are now used in radiotherapy to reduce the influence of ventilatory motion and damage to healthy tissue. There may be further clinical advantages in delivering each treatment session in only one single, prolo...

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Autores principales: Parkes, Michael J, Green, Stuart, Stevens, Andrea M, Parveen, Sophia, Stephens, Rebecca, Clutton-Brock, Thomas H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5257330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27168468
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjr.20160194