1717 / 1840
Take home messages:
•
DVHs are useful to help you plan the patient treatment (Plan
optimization and comparison of different plans)
•
DVHs are useful to evaluate your prescription or to prescribe (dose
to a volume)
•
Volume-Dose (V, D
V
or D,V
D
) parameters and “Quality” parameters
can be derived from DVHs
•
Attention: Aimed versus planned prescription (e.g. D
90
)
•
Predictive value of such (quality) parameters still has to be proven
for general use !