Comparison of rectal dose-wall histogram versus dose-volume histogram for modeling the incidence of late rectal bleeding after radiotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1589-1601

  Tucker, Susan L ^a   Dong, Lei ^a   Cheung, Rex ^a   Johnson, Jennifer ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a   Huang, Eugene H ^a   Liu, H Helen ^a   Thames, Howard D ^a   Kuban, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose volume histogram; Dose wall histogram; Normal tissue complication probability; Prostate cancer; Rectal toxicity

Indexed keywords

DOSE-WALL HISTOGRAMS (DWH); NORMAL-TISSUE COMPLICATION PROBABILITY (NTCP) MODELS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY (3D-CRT);

DATA REDUCTION; DOSIMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; TISSUE;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE VOLUME HISTOGRAM; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA IRRADIATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; ORGAN SIZE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RECTAL DOSE WALL HISTOGRAM; RECTUM; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SYNDROME DELINEATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTUM;

EID: 10044294906     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2004.07.712     Document Type: Article

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