Investigating the effect of cell repopulation on the tumor response to fractionated external radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 735-742

  Stavreva, N A ^a   Stavrev, P V ^a   Warkentin, B ^a   Fallone, B G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cell recovery; Cell repopulation; Model fitting; TCP

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; TUMORS;

CELL REPOPULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE CURVES; EXTERNAL RADIOTHERAPY; LINEAR QUADRATIC; MODEL FITTING; POISSON APPROXIMATIONS; TUMOR CONTROL PROBABILITY; TUMOR RESPONSE;

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELL DAMAGE; CELL POPULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; HUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 0038587418     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1567735     Document Type: Article

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