Effect of ionizing radiation on the human brain: White matter and gray matter T1 in pediatric brain tumor patients treated with conformal radiation therapy
刊名:International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
出版年:2001
出版时间:January 1, 2001
年:2001
卷:49
期:1
页码:79-91
全文大小:761 K
文摘
Objective: To test a hypothesis that fractionated radiation therapy (RT) to less than 60 Gy is associated with a dose-related change in the spin-lattice relaxation time (T1) of normal brain tissue, and that such changes are detectable by quantitative MRI (qMRI).