Treatment of pancreatic cancer tumors with intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) using the volume at risk approach (VARA): Employing dose-volume histogram (DVH) and normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) to evaluate small bowel toxicity

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 121-129

  Landry, Jerome C ^a   Yang, Gary Y ^a   Ting, Joseph Y ^a   Staley, Charles A ^a   Torres, William ^a   Esiashvili, Natia ^a   Davis, Lawrence W ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

3D CRT; IMRT; Pancreatic cancer; Radiation therapy; Small bowel injury; VaRA

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENTEROPATHY; RADIATION HAZARD; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; ADENOCARCINOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; SMALL INTESTINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMAN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTESTINE, SMALL; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; HUMANS;

EID: 0035987853     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-3947(02)00094-8     Document Type: Article

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