Course book Advanced Treatment Planning 2018

Parameters for clinical outcome: Rectum

• Dose-Volume histogram ( DVH ) against Dose-Wall Histogram ( DWH )

Meijer GJ et al. 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.