Analysis of a large number of clinical studies for breast cancer radiotherapy: Estimation of radiobiological parameters for treatment planning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 3307-3326

  Guerrero, M ^a   Li, X Allen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTIONATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

RADIOBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CELL POPULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECURRENCE RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 0142213231     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/20/004     Document Type: Article

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