Medical Dosimetry
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 283-291 , Winter 2006

Inverse-planned, dynamic, multi-beam, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT): A promising technique when target volume is the left breast and internal mammary lymph nodes

  • Carmen C. Popescu, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Radiation Therapy Program, British Columbia Cancer Agency–Vancouver Island Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: Carmen Popescu, Radiation Therapy Program, British Columbia Cancer Agency–Vancouver Island Centre, 2410 Lee Avenue, Victoria, BC, Canada, V8R 6V5
    • ,
  • Ivo Olivotto, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Radiation Therapy Program, British Columbia Cancer Agency–Vancouver Island Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    • Division of Radiation Oncology and Developmental Radiotherapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    • ,
  • Veronica Patenaude, B.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Radiation Therapy Program, British Columbia Cancer Agency–Vancouver Island Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    • ,
  • Elaine Wai, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Radiation Therapy Program, British Columbia Cancer Agency–Vancouver Island Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    • Division of Radiation Oncology and Developmental Radiotherapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    • ,
  • Wayne A. Beckham, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Radiation Therapy Program, British Columbia Cancer Agency–Vancouver Island Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    • Physics & Astronomy Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Received 1 September 2005 ,Accepted 1 May 2006.

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 Supported in part by a grant from the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, British Columbia/Yukon Chapter.Presented in part at the Canadian Association of Radiation Oncologists Annual Meeting, September 9–12, 2004, Halifax, Canada.

PII: S0958-3947(06)00127-0

doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2006.05.003

Medical Dosimetry
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 283-291 , Winter 2006

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