Dose prescription complexity versus tumor control probability in biologically conformal radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4379-4388

  South, C P ^a   Evans, P M ^a   Partridge, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dose painting; Functional imaging; Radiation therapy; Treatment planning; Tumor control probability

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBABILITY; RADIOTHERAPY; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; DOSE PAINTINGS; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; LINEAR-QUADRATIC MODELS; MATHEMATICAL FUNCTIONS; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR CONTROL PROBABILITY;

TUMORS;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGENATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 70349690190     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3213519     Document Type: Article

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