Estimation of pneumonitis risk in three-dimensional treatment planning using dose-volume histogram analysis

International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 455-460

  Oetzel, Dieter ^a   Schraube, Peter ^a   Hensley, Frank ^a   Sroka Pérez, Gabriele ^a   Menke, Markus ^b   Flentje, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D treatment planning; Dose volume histogram (DVH); Lung cancer; Normal tissue complication probability (NTCP); Pneumonitis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RADIATION PNEUMONITIS; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0029145957     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0360-3016(95)00009-N     Document Type: Article

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