Effect on tumour control of time interval between surgery and postoperative radiotherapy: An empirical approach using Monte Carlo simulation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2827-2839

  Al Dweri, Feras M O ^a   Guirado, Damián ^b   Lallena, Antonio M ^a   Pedraza, Vicente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SAN CECILIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RADIOTHERAPY; SURGERY; TUMORS;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CLONOGENS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CANCER CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CELL SURVIVAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS, SQUAMOUS CELL; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 3442897440     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/13/005     Document Type: Article

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