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Voluntary breath-hold technique for reducing heart dose in left breast radiotherapy

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العنوان: Voluntary breath-hold technique for reducing heart dose in left breast radiotherapy
المؤلفون: Bartlett, Frederick R., Colgan, Ruth M., Donovan, Ellen M., Carr, Karen, Landeg, Steven, Clements, Nicola, McNair, Helen A., Locke, Imogen, Evans, Philip M., Haviland, Joanne S., Yarnold, John R., Kirby, Anna M.
سنة النشر: 2014
المجموعة: University of Southampton: e-Prints Soton
الوصف: Breath-holding techniques reduce the amount of radiation received by cardiac structures during tangential-field left breast radiotherapy. With these techniques, patients hold their breath while radiotherapy is delivered, pushing the heart down and away from the radiotherapy field. Despite clear dosimetric benefits, these techniques are not yet in widespread use. One reason for this is that commercially available solutions require specialist equipment, necessitating not only significant capital investment, but often also incurring ongoing costs such as a need for daily disposable mouthpieces. The voluntary breath-hold technique described here does not require any additional specialist equipment. All breath-holding techniques require a surrogate to monitor breath-hold consistency and whether breath-hold is maintained. Voluntary breath-hold uses the distance moved by the anterior and lateral reference marks (tattoos) away from the treatment room lasers in breath-hold to monitor consistency at CT-planning and treatment setup. Light fields are then used to monitor breath-hold consistency prior to and during radiotherapy delivery.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
Relation: Bartlett, Frederick R., Colgan, Ruth M., Donovan, Ellen M., Carr, Karen, Landeg, Steven, Clements, Nicola, McNair, Helen A., Locke, Imogen, Evans, Philip M., Haviland, Joanne S., Yarnold, John R. and Kirby, Anna M. (2014) Voluntary breath-hold technique for reducing heart dose in left breast radiotherapy. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 89 (e51578). (doi:10.3791/51578 ). (PMID:25046661 )
الاتاحة: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/378546/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.B1FBB1C1
قاعدة البيانات: BASE