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Breast Cancer
Different radiotherapy treatment-planning systems for breast cancer compared
January 19th, 2006
Investigators compared different treatment-planning systems for breast cancer. Researchers in Switzerland conducted a study "to evaluate the performance of 10 different treatment-planning systems when intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) plans are designed for breast treatments that include the irradiation of the internal mammary chain. A dataset of 5 patients (CT images and volumes of interest) was distributed to design IMRT plans on the ten systems." "To minimize biases, the same geometry and clinical planning aims were imposed on the individual plans were analyzed in terms of dose distributions and dose volume histograms. For target coverage,...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-01-19)
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