The dose-response relation for rat spinal cord paralysis analyzed in terms of the effective size of the functional subunit

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 6533-6547

  Adamus Górka, Magdalena ^a   Mavroidis, Panayiotis ^a,b   Brahme, Anders ^a   Lind, Bengt K ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANES; DOSIMETRY; EXPERIMENTS; FUNCTIONS; IRRADIATION; MOSFET DEVICES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PROBABILITY; PROTON BEAMS; PROTON IRRADIATION; PROTONS;

BEST FITS; CELL NUCLEUSES; CLINICAL OUTCOMES; CONVOLUTION PROCESSES; DELIVERED DOSES; DIFFERENT SIZES; DOSE DELIVERIES; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; EFFECTIVE DOSES; EFFECTIVE SIZES; EFFECTIVE VOLUMES; EXPERIMENTAL DATUMS; FIELD SIZES; LEAST-SQUARES METHODS; MEAN DOSES; NON UNIFORMS; NORMAL TISSUE COMPLICATION PROBABILITIES; NTCP MODELS; OLIGODENDROCYTE; PROGENITOR CELLS; RADIATION THERAPIES; RAT SPINAL CORDS; RESPONSE CURVES; RESPONSE MODELS; VOLUME EFFECTS; WHITE MATTER NECROSIS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; IRRADIATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL PARALYSIS; STEM CELL; TISSUE NECROSIS; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARALYSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RATS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 58149214168     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/22/016     Document Type: Article

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