Evaluation of dose-response models and parameters predicting radiation induced pneumonitis using clinical data from breast cancer radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 3535-3554

  Tsougos, Ioannis ^a   Mavroidis, Panayiotis ^a,b   Rajala, Juha ^c   Theodorou, Kyriaki ^a   Järvenpää, Ritva ^c   Pitkänen, Maunu A ^c   Holli, Kaija ^c   Ojala, Antti T ^c   Lind, Bengt K ^b   Hyödynmaa, Simo ^c   Kappas, Constantin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSAGE; PROBABILITY; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER; NORMAL TISSUE COMPLICATION PROBABILITY (NTCP); RADIATION PNEUMONITIS; RADIOBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS;

DISEASES;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; RADIOBIOLOGY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM;

EID: 22544471217     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 00319155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/15/004     Document Type: Article

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