NTCP modelling and pulmonary function tests evaluation for the prediction of radiation induced pneumonitis in non-small-cell lung cancer radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1055-1073

  Tsougos, Ioannis ^a,b   Nilsson, Per ^c   Theodorou, Kiki ^a,b   Kjellén, Elisabeth ^c   Ewers, Sven Börje ^c   Jarlman, Olof ^c   Lind, Bengt K ^d   Kappas, Constantin ^a,b   Mavroidis, Panayiotis ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROBABILITY; RADIOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE; TUMORS;

NORMAL TISSUE COMPLICATION PROBABILITY (NTCP); PULMONARY FUNCTION TESTS (PFT); RADIATION INDUCED PNEUMONITIS;

PULMONARY DISEASES;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NORMAL TISSUE COMPLICATION PROBABILITY MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROCESS MODEL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; SCORING SYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVALUATION; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION PNEUMONITIS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34247150396     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/4/013     Document Type: Article

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