Further development of spinal cord retreatment dose estimation: including radiotherapy with protons and light ions.

Joshua W Moore Thomas E Woolley John W Hopewell Bleddyn Jones

Published in: International journal of radiation biology (2021)

The new GUI will allow scientific-based estimations of time related radiation tolerance changes in the spinal cord and similar central nervous tissues (optic chiasm, brainstem), which can be used to guide the choice of retreatment dose fractionation schedules, with either photons, protons or ions.

Keyphrases

spinal cord
spinal cord injury
neuropathic pain
quantum dots
early stage
radiation induced
gene expression
radiation therapy
locally advanced
optical coherence tomography
water soluble
optic nerve
decision making
rectal cancer