Fitting of tissue tolerance data to analytic function: Improving the therapeutic ratio

Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and Oncology

Volumn 37, Issue , 2002, Pages 151-162

  Burman, Chandra M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; NEOPLASM; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMAN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIATION, IONIZING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 0036133954     PISSN: 00719676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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