Optimum parameters in a model for tumour control probability, including interpatient heterogeneity: Evaluation of the log-normal distribution

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 291-302

  Keall, P J ^a,b   Webb, S ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

CLONOGENIC CELL DENSITY; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; TUMOUR CONTROL PROBABILITY;

TUMORS;

ARTICLE; BREAST; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CELL DENSITY; CLONOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MELANOMA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; PROBABILITY; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247534273     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/1/019     Document Type: Article

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