Comparison of dose response models for predicting normal tissue complications from cancer radiotherapy: Application in rat spinal cord

Cancers

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 2421-2443

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

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

NTCP; Radiobiological models; Spinal cord complications

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; LOGIT DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PROBIT DISTRIBUTION; SPINAL PARALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TISSUE NECROSIS; VASCULAR LESION; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 79959713020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers3022421     Document Type: Article

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