Test of the local effect model using clinical data: Tumour control probability for lung tumours after treatment with carbon ion beams

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 122, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 478-479

  Scholz, M ^a   Matsufuji, N ^b   Kanai, T ^b  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; HEAVY ION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; PHOTON; PHYSICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOSENSITIVITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HEAVY IONS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34347396413     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl426     Document Type: Article

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