Underprediction of human skin erythema at low doses per fraction by the linear quadratic model

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-30

  Hamilton, Christopher S ^a   Denham, James W ^a   O'Brien, Maree ^a   Ostwald, Patricia ^a   Kron, Tomas ^a   Wright, Suzanne ^a   Dörr, Wolfgang ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE MATER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Erythema; Fractionation parameters; Radiotherapy; Reflectance spectrophotometry; Skin; Ratio

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOSENSITIVITY;

EID: 0030201084     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-8140(96)01764-1     Document Type: Article

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