Organs at risk in the brain and their dose-constraints in adults and in children: A radiation oncologist's guide for delineation in everyday practice

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 230-238

  Scoccianti, Silvia ^a   Detti, Beatrice ^a   Gadda, Davide ^a   Greto, Daniela ^a   Furfaro, Ilaria ^a   Meacci, Fiammetta ^a   Simontacchi, Gabriele ^a   Di Brina, Lucia ^a   Bonomo, Pierluigi ^a   Giacomelli, Irene ^a   Meattini, Icro ^a   Mangoni, Monica ^a   Cappelli, Sabrina ^a   Cassani, Sara ^a   Talamonti, Cinzia ^a   Bordi, Lorenzo ^a   Livi, Lorenzo ^a  

^a CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain contouring atlas; Dose constraints; Normal tissue; Optic chiasm; Organs at risk; Radiotherapy atlas

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BEVACIZUMAB; CISPLATIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; RADIOSENSITIZING AGENT; THYROTROPIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS HYPOFUNCTION; ADULT; ADULT DISEASE; ANATOMY ONTOLOGY; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BASAL CISTERN; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; BRAIN STEM; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CHIASMATIC CISTERN; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COCHLEA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CORTICOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; DENTATE GYRUS; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GONADOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LACRIMAL GLAND; LASER COAGULATION; LENS; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; MEMORY; MIDDLE CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEURORADIOLOGIST; NEUROSURGEON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC CHIASM; ORGANS AT RISK; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PITUITARY STALK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIGEMINAL CISTERN; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION ONCOLOGIST; RADIATION RETINOPATHY; RETINA; RETINOPATHY; SELLA TURCICA; TSH DEFICIENCY; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOMETRY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; COCHLEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; OPTIC CHIASM; ORGANS AT RISK; PITUITARY GLAND; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84926168242     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2015.01.016     Document Type: Article

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