Radiation tolerance of rat spinal cord to pulsed dose rate (PDR-) brachytherapy: The impact of differences in temporal dose distribution

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 301-315

  Pop, Lucas A M ^a   Millar, William T ^b   Van Der Plas, Mirjam ^a   Van Der Kogel, Albert J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dose rate; Radiation tolerance; Repair kinetics; Spinal cord; Temporal dose distribution

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INDWELLING CATHETER; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; RAT; SPINAL CORD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TISSUE REPAIR;

ANIMALS; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; MALE; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0034213304     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(00)00205-X     Document Type: Article

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