Reporting and analyzing dose distributions: A concept of equivalent uniform dose

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 103-110

  Niemierko, Andrzej ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

biological modeling; dose volume distribution; DVH; effective uniform dose; EUD; reporting dose; three dimensional treatment planning

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODELING; DOSE-VOLUME; EFFECTIVE UNIFORM DOSE; REPORTING DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CLONOGENESIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0031037018     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598063     Document Type: Article

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