Example sentences for: dvh
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In view of the lead role the prostate has taken in understanding treatment planning, patient setup, and dose escalation, incorporation of treatment-related information into the DVH - to further facilitate advances in reduction of rectal or urinary toxicity - is highly appropriate.
As expected, the DVH's (both C-DVH's and BED-DVH's) were predictive of rectal and urinary toxicity - that is, those that developed late GI or GU toxicity had DVH's that demonstrated more integral dose to the rectum or bladder than those patients who did not develop such toxicity.
Figure 1shows the comparison for the case of the conventional DVH's of the rectum.
In order to perform comparison of the individual matched pairs in an objective, reproducible, and systematic manner, the following measure of normalized difference in the average DVH was computed:
The results of the current investigation are encouraging - the well-known conventional DVH can be successfully expanded to include treatment delivery, tissue biology, and time/fractionation-related information that better represents the true effect of the treatment on critical structures.