Rectum contouring variability in patients treated for prostate cancer: Impact on rectum dose-volume histograms and normal tissue complication probability

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 249-255

  Fiorino, Claudio ^a   Vavassori, Vittorio ^b   Sanguineti, Giuseppe ^c   Bianchi, Carla ^b   Cattaneo, Giovanni Mauro ^a   Piazzolla, Anna ^b   Cozzarini, Cesare ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b OSPEDALE DI CIRCOLO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dose volume histogram; Inter observer variability; Normal tissue complication probability; Rectal toxicity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM; TREATMENT PLANNING; BLEEDING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTAL DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0036023919     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(01)00469-8     Document Type: Article

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