background: accelerated partial breast irradiation via interstitial balloon brachytherapy is a fast and effective treatment method for certain early stage breast cancers however skin, chest wall and lung doses are correlated with toxicity in patients treated with breast brachytherapy. objective: to investigate the percentage of the dose received by critical organ (skin), thermoluminescence dete...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) with the fixed collimator jaws technique (FJT) for the left breast and regional lymph node. The targeted breast tissue and the lymph nodes, and the normal tissues were contoured for 16 left-sided breast cancer patients previously treated with radiotherapy after lumpectomy. For each patient, treatment plans usin...

background: we aimed to compare field-in-field technique (fif) with conformal tangential field radiotherapy (crt) in terms of dosimetric benefits for early stage breast cancer radiotherapy. materials and methods: twenty consecutive left-side breast cancer patients who underwent breast-conserving surgery were included to the study. for each patient, two different treatment plans were created for...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSES To compare the dosimetry for the left-sided breast cancer treatment using five different radiotherapy techniques. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty patients with left sided breast cancer were treated with conservative surgery followed by radiotherapy. They were planned using five different radiotherapy techniques, including: 1) conventional tangential wedge-based fields (TW...

BACKGROUND Women with chronic inflammatory diseases face uncertainty regarding the safety of biologics during breast feeding. CRADLE was the first industry-sponsored study to evaluate certolizumab pegol (CZP) concentrations in human breast milk and estimate average daily infant dose (ADID) of maternal CZP. METHODS CRADLE (NCT02154425) was a pharmacokinetic study of lactating mothers receiving...

PURPOSE We evaluated the impact of three automatic optimization of parameters (AOP) modes of digital mammography on the dose and image quality. METHODS Computerized Imaging Reference Systems phantoms were used. A total of 12 phantoms with different thickness and glandularity were imaged. We analyzed the average glandular dose (AGD) and entrance surface exposure (ESE) of 12 phantoms imaged by ...

ID: 12590 Title: Application of 3D Intensity Modulated Brachytherapy for Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation Introduction The advent of electronic brachytherapy sources has shed some light on application of intensity modulation in brachytherapy, known as intensity modulated brachytherapy (IMBT). Previous researchers have investigated the feasibility of utilizing partially shielded sources to...

Background: Chest CT is a commonly used examination for the diagnosis of lung diseases, but a breast within the scanned field is nearly never the organ of interest.Objective: The purpose of this study is to compare the female breast and lung doses using split and standard protocols in chest CT scanning.Materials and Methods: The sliced chest and breast female phantoms were used. CT exams were p...