Continuous, pulsed or single acute irradiation of a transplanted rodent tumour model

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 203-209

  Sethi, Tejinder ^a,c   Dixon, Bryan ^a   Flynn, Anthony ^b   Ash, Daniel V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b Northern and Yorkshire Clinical Trials and Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

^c RAJIV GANDHI CANCER INSTITUTE AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Afterloading pulsed mode brachytherapy; Continuous low dose rate tumour irradiation (CLDR); Pulsed dose irradiation (PDR)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION PROTECTION; RAT; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA;

ANIMALS; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SARCOMA, EXPERIMENTAL;

EID: 0030910422     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(97)01934-8     Document Type: Article

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