Elective breast radiotherapy including level I and II lymph nodes: A planning study with the humeral head as planning risk volume

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• 作者：Kathrin Surmann ; Jorien van der Leer ; Tammy Branje…
• 关键词：Breast radiotherapy ; Lymph nodes ; IMRT ; VMAT ; Humeral head ; Planning study
• 刊名：Radiation Oncology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：12
• 期：1
• 全文大小：5254KB
• 刊物主题：Cancer Research; Oncology; Radiotherapy; Imaging / Radiology;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1748-717X
• 卷排序：12

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BackgroundThe aim of this study was to assess the dose to the humeral head planning risk volume with the currently used high tangential fields (HTF) and compare different planning techniques for breast radiotherapy including axillary level I and II lymph nodes (PTVn) while sparing the humeral head.