Dose-volume histogram and dose-surface histogram analysis for skin reactions to carbon ion radiotherapy for bone and soft tissue sarcoma

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 60-65

  Yanagi, Takeshi ^a   Kamada, Tadashi ^a   Tsuji, Hiroshi ^a   Imai, Reiko ^a   Serizawa, Itsuko ^a   Tsujii, Hirohiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bone and soft tissue sarcoma; Carbon ion radiotherapy; Dose surface histogram; Dose volume histogram; Skin reaction; Skin ulcer

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPLICATION SITE DESQUAMATION; APPLICATION SITE ULCER; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHONDROSARCOMA; CHORDOMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; ION THERAPY; LIPOSARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MALIGNANT PERIPHERAL NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; OSTEOSARCOMA; PERIPHERAL NERVE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; CARBON; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAVY IONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SARCOMA; SKIN;

EID: 77950332301     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.08.041     Document Type: Article

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