A comprehensive clinical 3-dimensional dosimetric analysis of forward planned IMRT and conventional wedge planned techniques for intact breast radiotherapy

Dosimetric evaluation of whole breast radiotherapy using field-in-field technique in early-stage breast cancer

“…The field-in-field radiotherapy technique is one of those techniques to improve the dosimetry in the irradiated volumes. To date, several investigations of the use of the FIF technique to improve dose distribution have been reported [20,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. FIF techniques are able to decrease the scattered doses to the contralateral breast and other parts of the body compared with conventional tangential field techniques [34,35], because of the use of MLCs instead of PWs.…”

Whole breast irradiation for small-sized breasts after conserving surgery: is the field-in-field technique optimal?

“…The FIF presented improved target coverage in D max , D min , V 107 , and lung dose in D max and V 95 . Herrick et al [14] also distributed patients according to breast volume; however, their standard of a small breast was \975 cc. These patients presented improved V 105 and V 110 in FIF compared with the tangential technique.…”

Dosimetric comparison of field in field intensity-modulated radiotherapy technique with conformal radiotherapy techniques in breast cancer

“…[11][12][13] In a randomized study, Barnett at al. 13 reported that breast dosimetry can be signifi cantly improved with the FiF technique with little impact on radiotherapy resources.…”

“…13 reported that breast dosimetry can be signifi cantly improved with the FiF technique with little impact on radiotherapy resources. Herrick et al 11 compared the CRT with FiF for three patient groups with breast volumes defi ned as small, medium, and large. They classifi ed breast volumes <975 cc as small, 976-1600 cc as medium, and >1600 cc as large.…”

“…There have been other reports on the use of the FiF technique to improve dose distribution. [11][12][13] In this study, we performed a dosimetric comparison of FiF and two conformal techniques that are frequently used in our department for breast irradiation.…”