Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Radiation Oncology cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: "Dose volume histogram analysis of normal structures associated with accelerated partial breast irradiation delivered by high dose rate brachytherapy and comparison with whole breast external beam radiotherapy fields. | Radiation Oncology BioMed Central Open Access Dose volume histogram analysis of normal structures associated with accelerated partial breast irradiation delivered by high dose rate brachytherapy and comparison with whole breast external beam radiotherapy fields Alexandra J Stewart1 Desmond A O Farrell2 Robert A Cormack2 Jorgen L Hansen2 Atif J Khan3 Subhakar Mutyala4 and Phillip M Devlin 2 Address 1St Luke s Cancer Centre Royal Surrey County Hospital Guildford Surrey UK 2Division of Brachytherapy Department of Radiation Oncology Dana Faber Brigham and Women s Cancer Center Harvard Medical School Boston MA USA 3Department of Radiation Oncology Cancer Institute of New Jersey New Jersey USA and 4Department of Radiation Oncology Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx New York USA Email Alexandra J Stewart - ajsintheus@ Desmond A O Farrell - dofarrell@ Robert A Cormack - rcormack@ Jorgen L Hansen - jhansen@ Atif J Khan - Subhakar Mutyala - smutyala@ Phillip M Devlin - pdevlin@ Corresponding author Published 19 November 2008 Received 15 July 2008 Accepted 19 November 2008 RadiationOncology 2008 3 39 doi 1748-717X-3-39 This article is available from http content 3 1 39 2008 Stewart et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Purpose To assess the radiation dose delivered to the heart and ipsilateral lung during accelerated partial breast brachytherapy using a MammoSite applicator and compare to those produced by whole breast external beam radiotherapy WBRT . Materials and methods Dosimetric analysis was conducted on patients receiving .
