Biologically-equivalent dose and long-term survival time in radiation treatments

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 6355-6362

  Zaider, Marco ^a   Hanin, Leonid ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DRUG THERAPY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TUMORS;

CELLULAR PROLIFERATION; DEATH RATES; LINEAR-QUADRATIC MODEL; TUMOR CONTROL PROBABILITY (TCP);

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLONOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 36048941489     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/20/017     Document Type: Article

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