Estimation of the total rectal dose of radical external beam and intracavitary radiotherapy for uterine cervical cancer using the deformable image registration method

In conclusion, the difference between the simple rectal dose–volume histogram (DVH) parameter addition and DIR-based cumulative rectal doses increased with decreasing DVH parameters.

Source: Journal of Radiation Research - May 11, 2015 Category: Physics Authors: Hayashi, K., Isohashi, F., Akino, Y., Wakai, N., Mabuchi, S., Suzuki, O., Seo, Y., Ootani, Y., Sumida, I., Yoshioka, Y., Kimura, T., Ogawa, K. Tags: Oncology Source Type: research