Dose-volume histograms for bladder and rectum

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1105-1111

  Ting, Joseph Y ^a   Wu, Xiaodong ^a   Fiedler, Jeffrey A ^a   Yang, Chingchong ^a   Watzich, Marcia L ^a   Markoe, Arnold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose volume histograms; Normal tissue complication probabilities; Prostate cancer; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLADDER MUCOSA; BODY SURFACE; DOSE CALCULATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HISTOGRAM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RECTUM MUCOSA; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 0030757463     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(97)00312-X     Document Type: Article

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