Impact of dose hot spots on spinal cord tolerance following stereotactic body radiotherapy: A generalized biological effective dose analysis

Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-40

  Sahgal, A ^a   Ma, L ^a   Fowler, J ^c   Weinberg, V ^d   Gibbs, I ^e   Gerszten, P C ^f   Ryu, S ^g   Soltys, S ^e   Chang, E ^h   Wong, C S ^a   Larson, D A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologic effective dose; Biological modeling; Myelopathy; Radiation tolerance; Stereotactic body radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION INJURY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY;

EID: 84055207557     PISSN: 15330346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7785/tcrt.2012.500232     Document Type: Article

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