Radiotherapeutic normal tissue injury can be viewed as two simultaneously ongoing and
interacting processes. The first has many features in common with the healing of traumatic …

Purpose. To develop and disseminate a report aimed primarily at practicing radiation
oncology physicians and medical physicists that describes the current state-of-the-art of …

Purpose: The objective of this work was to develop a quality control (QC) tool to reduce
intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) planning variability and improve treatment plan …

From background physics and biological models to the latest imaging and treatment
modalities, the Handbook of Radiotherapy Physics: Theory and Practice covers all …

Purpose: To describe the dose—volume tolerance for radiation-induced liver disease (RILD)
using the Lyman—Kutcher—Burman (LKB) normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) …

Purpose: To determine the relationships between the three-dimensional dose distributions
in parotid glands and their saliva production, and to find the doses and irradiated volumes …

Purpose: To determine the relation between the incidence of radiation pneumonitis and the
three-dimensional dose distribution in the lung. Methods and Materials: In five institutions …

Background Radical radiotherapy is commonly used to treat localised prostate cancer. Late
chronic side-effects limit the dose that can be given, and may be linked to the volume of …

From the Publisher: This objective, referenced collection of over 300 articles will cover every
aspect of medical devices and instrumentation in four volumes, totalling about 3,000 pages …

Purpose: To relate lung dose-volume histogram-based factors to symptomatic radiation
pneumonitis (RP) in patients with lung cancer undergoing 3-dimensional (3D) radiotherapy …