Clinical validation of the LKB model and parameter sets for predicting radiation-induced pneumonitis from breast cancer radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Tsougos, Ioannis ^a   Mavroidis, Panayiotis ^a,b   Theodorou, Kyriaki ^a   Rajala, J ^c   Pitkanen M A ^c   Holli, K ^c   Ojala, A T ^c   Hyodynmaa S ^c   Järvenpää, Ritva ^c   Lind, Bengt K ^b   Kappas, Constantin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL LABORATORIES; DISEASES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

ACCEPTABLE ACCURACY; BREAST CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL VALIDATION; RADIATION-INDUCED PNEUMONITIS;

TUMORS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ABNORMALITIES, RADIATION-INDUCED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; LUNG; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION PNEUMONITIS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; ROC CURVE;

EID: 31344445928     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/3/L01     Document Type: Article

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