950
Views
2
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Article

Clinical comparative study of dose–volume and equivalent uniform dose based predictions in post radiotherapy acute complications

, , , , &
Pages 1044-1053 | Received 02 Nov 2008, Published online: 08 Oct 2009

References

  • Emami B, Lyman J, Brown A, Coia L, Goitein M, Munzenrider JE, et al. Tolerance of normal tissue to therapeutic irradiation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1991; 21: 109–22
  • Schinkel C, Stavrev P, Stavreva N, Fallone BG. A theoretical approach to the problem of dose-volume constraint estimation and their impact on the dose-volume histogram selection. Med Phys 2006; 33: 3444–5
  • Dawson LA, Biersack M, Lockwood G, Eisbruch A, Lawrence TS, Ten Haken RK. Use of principal component analysis to evaluate the partial organ tolerance of normal tissues to radiation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2005; 62: 829–37
  • Munley MT, Lo JY, Sibley GS, Bentel GC, Anscher MS, Marks LB. A neural network to predict symptomatic lung injury. Phys Med Biol 1999; 44: 2241–9
  • Niemierko A. A generalized concept of equivalent uniform dose (EUD). Med Phys 1999; 26: 1100
  • Das SK, Baydush AH, Zhou S, Miften M, Yu X, Craciunescu O, et al. Predicting radiotherapy-induced cardiac perfusion defects. Med Phys 2005; 32: 19–27
  • Cox JD, Stetz J, Pajak TF. Toxicity criteria of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) and the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC). Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1995; 31: 1341–6
  • Hanley JA, McNeil BJ. The meaning and use of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Radiology 1982; 143: 29–36
  • Hanley JA, McNeil BJ. A method of comparing the areas under receiver operating characteristic curves derived from the same cases. Radiology 1983; 148: 839–43
  • Lyman JT, Wolbarst AB. Optimization of radiation therapy, IV: A dose-volume histogram reduction algorithm. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1989; 17: 433–6
  • Burman C, Kutcher GJ, Emami B, Goitein M. Fitting of normal tissue tolerance data to an analytic function. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1991; 21: 123–35
  • Peeters ST, Hoogeman MS, Heemsbergen WD, Slot A, Tabak H, Koper PC, et al. Volume and hormonal effects for acute side effects of rectum and bladder during conformal radiotherapy for prostate cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2005; 63: 1142–52
  • Peeters ST, Heemsbergen WD, van Putten WL, Slot A, Tabak H, Mens JW, et al. Acute and late complications after radiotherapy for prostate cancer: Results of a multicenter randomized trial comparing 68 Gy to 78 Gy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2005; 61: 1019–34
  • Karlsdóttir A, Johannessen DC, Muren LP, Wentzel-Larsen T, Dahl O, et al. Acute morbidity related to treatment volume during 3D-conformal radiation therapy for prostate cancer. Radiother Oncol 2004; 71: 43–53
  • Nuyttens JJ, Milito S, Rust PF, Turrisi AT. Dose-volume relationship for acute side effects during high dose conformal radiotherapy for prostate cancer. Radiother Oncol 2002; 64: 209–14
  • Cheng JC, Schultheiss TE, Nguyen KH, Wong JY. Acute toxicity in definitive versus postprostatectomy image-guided radiotherapy for prostate cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2008; 71: 351–7
  • Odrázcka K, Vanásek J, Vaculíková M, Petera J, Zouhar M, Zoul Z, et al. Conformal radiotherapy for prostate cancer—Longer duration of acute genitourinary toxicity in patients with prior history of invasive urological procedure. Acta Oncol 2001; 40: 810–5
  • Zelefsky MJ, Fuks Z, Hunt M, Yamada Y, Marion C, Ling CC, et al. High-dose intensity modulated radiation therapy for prostate cancer: Early toxicity and biochemical outcome in 772 patients. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2002; 53: 1111–6
  • Sanguineti GA., Endres EJ, Parker BC, Bicquart C, Little M, Chen G, et al. Acute toxicity of whole-pelvis IMRT in 87 patients with localized prostate cancer. Acta Oncol 2008; 47: 301–10
  • Meijer GJ, Van den Brink M, Hoogeman MS, Meinders J, Lebesque JV. Dose-wall histograms and normalized dose-surface histograms for the rectum: A new method to analyze the dose distribution over the rectum in conformal radiotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1999; 45: 1073–80
  • Tho LM, Glegg M, Paterson J, Yap C, MacLeod A, McCabe M, et al. Acute small bowel toxicity and preoperative chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer: Investigating dose-volume relationships and role for inverse planning. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2006; 66: 505–13
  • Park CS, Kim Y, Lee N, Bucci KM, Quivey JM, Verhey LJ, et al. Method to account for dose fractionation in analysis of IMRT plans: Modified equivalent uniform dose. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2005; 62: 925–32

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.