Open AccessImpact of a large breast separation on radiation dose delivery to the ipsilateral lung as result of respiratory motion quantified using free breathing and 4D CT-based planning in patients with locally advanced breast cancers: A potential for adverse clinical implications
Author(s) -
Thomas E. Heineman,
Albert Sabbas,
M.S. Delamerced,
Ya-Lin Chiu,
Michael L. Smith,
Bhupesh Parashar,
A. Gabriella Wernicke
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.110368
Subject(s) - medicine , exhalation , nuclear medicine , lung , breathing , dosimetry , radiation therapy , radiology , anatomy
We examined the effects of large breast separation (BS) on dosimetric and positional differences of radiation treatment plans of locally advanced breast cancers during a free-breathing respiratory cycle.