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Aug 2026
Beyond mean heart dose: quantitative impact of sub-structure spatial dosimetrics on subclinical myocardial strain in thoracic radiotherapy
Purpose To evaluate the spatial dosimetric relationships between cardiac substructures and hyper-acute subclinical myocardial strain alterations after thoracic intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). Methods Forty patients with thoracic malignancies were prospectively enrolled. Two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocar...
Yan-Jun Zhang, Xiaochen Han, Fei-Fei Wang et al.
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