Consensus guideline
Radiation dose–volume effects in the lung (QUANTEC)
Marks LB, Bentzen SM, Deasy JO, et al. · QUANTEC
DoseLab summary
The lung chapter of the 2010 QUANTEC supplement. It reviews the relationship between lung dose–volume parameters and radiation pneumonitis and emphasizes that no single threshold cleanly separates safe from unsafe plans.
Why this is useful
The QUANTEC lung chapter: how lung dose–volume metrics relate to symptomatic pneumonitis in conventionally fractionated treatment, and the caveats around using them as hard limits.
Reference details
- Title
- Radiation dose–volume effects in the lung (QUANTEC)
- Authors / organization
- Marks LB, Bentzen SM, Deasy JO, et al. · QUANTEC
- Publication / protocol
- Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2010;76(3 Suppl):S70–S76
- Version
- Pending verification
- Year
- 2010
- DOI
- Pending verification
- Disease sites
- Lung, Breast, GI
- Topics
- Dose Constraints, QUANTEC, Conventional fractionation, Pneumonitis
- Fractionation context
- Primarily conventional fractionation
- Last reviewed by DoseLab
- Pending verification