Crawl positioning improves set-up precision and patient comfort in prone whole breast irradiation

Prone positioning for whole-breast irradiation (WBI) reduces dose to organs at risk, but reduces set-up speed, precision, and comfort. We aimed to improve these problems by placing patients in prone crawl position on a newly developed crawl couch (CrC). A group of 10 right-sided breast cancer patien...

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Autores principales: Deseyne, Pieter, Speleers, Bruno, De Neve, Wilfried, Boute, Bert, Paelinck, Leen, Vakaet, Vincent, Van Hulle, Hans, Schoepen, Max, Stouthandel, Michael, Van Greveling, Annick, Post, Giselle, Detand, Jan, Monten, Chris, Depypere, Herman, Veldeman, Liv
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7532156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33009448
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72702-3

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