Comments on the use of the Lyman-Kutcher-Burman model to describe tissue response to nonuniform irradiation (multiple letters)

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1458-1460

  Deasy, Joseph O ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; PAROTID GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA; TISSUE REACTION;

ALGORITHMS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PAROTID GLAND; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 0034661751     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)00500-9     Document Type: Letter

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