BGRT: Biologically guided radiation therapy - The future is fast approaching!

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3739-3751

  Stewart, Robert D ^a   Li, X Allen ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological imaging; Biologically guided radiation therapy; LQ model; Outcome modeling

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL IMAGING; CELLULAR RESPONSE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; PARTIAL IMPLEMENTATION; RADIATION RESPONSE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL INFORMATION; TREATMENT OUTCOMES; TREATMENT PLANNING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BIOLOGICALLY GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 34748922860     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2779861     Document Type: Article

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