Correlation between surrogates of bladder dosimetry and dose-volume histograms of the bladder wall defined on MRI in prostate cancer radiotherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 180-183

  Carillo, Viviana ^a   Cozzarini, Cesare ^a   Chietera, Andreina ^a   Perna, Lucia ^a   Gianolini, Stefano ^b   Maggio, Angelo ^c   Botti, Andrea ^d   Rancati, Tiziana ^e   Valdagni, Riccardo ^e   Fiorino, Claudio ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Medical Software Solutions GmbH   (Switzerland)

^c CANDIOLO CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^d S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bladder wall; Dose surface histogram; GU toxicity; Prostate radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER WALL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOSIMETRY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 84871277782     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2012.10.001     Document Type: Article

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