Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M D ANDERSON

Amount

$543,645.00

Award Date

6/02/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

The proposal seeks to develop the first meaningful objective radiographic parameter that correlates with the clinical symptoms of radiation pneumonitis (RP) as an imaging biomarker of RP. RP is the dose limiting toxicity in thoracic radiotherapy for lung