Reducing cardiac doses: a novel multi‐leaf collimator modification technique to reduce left anterior descending coronary artery dose in patients with left‐sided breast cancer

INTRODUCTION: When irradiating the left breast, a small portion of the heart and left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) are often included in the treatment field. Deep inspiration breath‐hold (DIBH) techniques reduce dose to coronary structures, but are resource intensive and may not be tole...

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Autores principales: Welsh, Briana, Chao, Michael, Foroudi, Farshad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Original Articles
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5454332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27741387
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmrs.191

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5454332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27741387
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmrs.191

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