Absolute and relative dose-surface and dose-volume histograms of the bladder: Which one is the most representative for the actual treatment?

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 3589-3597

  Hoogeman, Mischa S ^a,b,c   Peeters, Stephanie T H ^a   De Bois, Josien ^a   Lebesque, Joos V ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION METHODS; DRUG DOSAGE; GRAPH THEORY; SCANNING;

BLADDERS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY (CT) SCAN; CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; HISTOGRAMS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BLADDER FILLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 22544457606     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/15/007     Document Type: Article

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