Kinetic modeling of tumor growth and dissemination in the craniospinal axis: Implications for craniospinal irradiation

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Meyer, Jeffrey J ^a   Marks, Lawrence B ^a   Halperin, Edward C ^a   Kirkpatrick, John P ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; HUMAN; KINETICS; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; RISK; SKULL IRRADIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; HUMANS; KINETICS; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RISK;

EID: 34248394618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-1-48     Document Type: Article

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