Dose-rate effects in external beam radiotherapy redux

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 261-268

  Ling, C Clifton ^a,b   Gerweck, Leo E ^c   Zaider, Marco ^b   Yorke, Ellen ^b  

^a VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

^b Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose rate effect; External beam radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELL KILLING; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA DAMAGE; DOSIMETRY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOBIOLOGY; REVIEW; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TUMOR CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 77952581020     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.03.014     Document Type: Review

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