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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-6-22
pubmed:abstractText
Exchange of clinical information is essential for the development and progress in radiation oncology. This goal can be achieved only through a general harmonization on methods of reporting. The ICRU has been involved for several decades in a continuous effort to harmonize reporting of dose and to standardize methods used to determine the doses and points or volumes where these doses are delivered. Requirements for reporting proton and ion beam therapy should, in principle, be as similar as possible to reporting the current radiation therapy modalities. However, proton and ion therapy have their own clinical and technical uniqueness: in particular, they require definition of new clinical, radiobiological and technical concepts, and strict quality assurance programmes for efficient and safe clinical application. The current ICRU definitions of volumes are reviewed: Gross Tumour Volume (GTV), Clinical Target Volume (CTV), Planning Target Volume (PTV), Organs At Risk (OAR), Planning organ at Risk Volume (PRV), treated volume and reference volume. The irradiation conditions and the absorbed dose should always be reported together with the point(s) and/or volume(s) where the dose is delivered. In addition, the weighting factor W(RBE) introduced to take into account the RBE, and the related weighted dose D(RBE) have to be reported.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0167-8140
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
73 Suppl 2
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
S57-61
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
General principles for prescribing, recording and reporting a therapeutic irradiation.
pubmed:affiliation
Cliniques Universitaires St-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate,5469, 1200 Brussels, Belgium. gregoire@rbnt.ucl.ac.be
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article