Simple Summary Total body irradiation is an integral part of many conditioning regimens
prior to allogeneic stem cell transplantation. It is a large-field technique affecting all organs …

Introduction Total body irradiation is an effective conditioning regimen for allogeneic stem
cell transplantation in pediatric and adult patients with high risk or relapsed/refractory …

Radiation therapy (RT) is an important treatment modality for multiple thoracic malignancies.
Incidental irradiation of the lungs, which are particularly susceptible to injury, is unavoidable …

Normal lung parenchyma is often unavoidably exposed to radiation during thoracic
radiotherapy for bronchogenic and systemic neoplasms. Because the lung is extremely …

Radiation-induced lung injury (RILI) encompasses any lung toxicity induced by radiation
therapy (RT) and manifests acutely as radiation pneumonitis and chronically as radiation …

Patients who have lung cancer are treated frequently with high doses of thoracic irradiation.
A portion of normal lung tissue is included in the irradiated volume; clinical studies showed …

Purpose To evaluate clinical pulmonary and radiographic bronchial toxicity after stereotactic
ablative radiation therapy and hypofractionated radiation therapy for central lung tumors …

Multiple competing normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) models have been
proposed for predicting symptomatic radiation-induced lung injury in human. In this paper …

PURPOSE: Extensive research has led to the identification of numerous dosimetric
parameters as well as patient characteristics, associated with lung toxicity, but their clinical …

The decision to administer a radical course of radiotherapy (RT) is largely influenced by the
dose-volume metrics of the treatment plan, but what are the patient-related and other factors …