Accounting for treatment delays when treating highly proliferative tumours

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 223-234

  Jones, Lois ^a,b,d   Metcalfe, Peter ^c   Hoban, Peter ^a  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Illawarra Cancer Care Centre   (Australia)

^d LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TIME; TUMOR GROWTH;

CELL DIVISION; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PROBABILITY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0032916788     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/1/016     Document Type: Article

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