International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics
Volume 76, Issue 3, Supplement , Pages S58-S63 , 1 March 2010

Radiotherapy Dose–Volume Effects on Salivary Gland Function

  • Joseph O. Deasy, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine and Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, St. Louis, MO
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: Joseph O. Deasy, Ph.D., Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, 4921 Parkview Pl., St. Louis, MO 63110. Tel: (314) 362-1420; Fax: (314) 362-8521
    • ,
  • Vitali Moiseenko, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Physics, British Columbia Cancer Agency–Vancouver Cancer Center, Vancouver, BC, Canada
    • ,
  • Lawrence Marks, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
    • ,
  • K.S. Clifford Chao, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Columbia School of Medicine, New York, NY
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  • Jiho Nam, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
    • ,
  • Avraham Eisbruch, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI

Received 6 February 2009 ,Revised 8 June 2009 ,Accepted 12 June 2009.

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 Partially funded by National Institutes of Health Grant R01 CA85181 (to J. O. Deasy) and Grant CA69579 (L. B. Marks) and by the American Association of Medical Physicists and the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology.

 Conflict of interest: none.

PII: S0360-3016(09)03289-1

doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.06.090

International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics
Volume 76, Issue 3, Supplement , Pages S58-S63 , 1 March 2010

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