Incorporation of functional status into dose-volume analysis

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 196-199

  Marks, Lawrence B ^a   Sherouse, George W ^a   Munley, Michael T ^a   Bentel, Gunilla C ^a   Spencer, David P ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose volume histogram; Functional imaging; Radiation oncology; Treatment plan evaluation

Indexed keywords

ONCOLOGY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

CLINICAL TREATMENT PLANS; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL-DOSE VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHS;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

ARTICLE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LUNG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0032943364     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598503     Document Type: Article

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