A comparison of physically and radiobiologically based optimization for IMRT

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1447-1455

  Jones, Lois ^a   Hoban, Peter ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Normal and tumor cells; Optimization; Radiobiological models

Indexed keywords

CELLS; HISTOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; TUMORS;

BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVE DOSE; BIOLOGICALLY BASED MODELS; COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS; EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSE; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; TUMOR CELLS;

CYTOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOBIOLOGY; TECHNIQUE; TUMOR CELL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; RADIATION RESPONSE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 0035996429     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1487420     Document Type: Article

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