Consequences of dose heterogeneity on the biological efficiency of 103Pd permanent breast seed implants

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 809-823

  Afsharpour, Hossein ^a,b   Reniers, Brigitte ^c   Landry, Guillaume ^c   Pignol, Jean Philippe ^d   Keller, Brian M ^d   Verhaegen, Frank ^c,e   Beaulieu, Luc ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVE DOSE; BIOLOGICAL EFFICIENCY; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SEED IMPLANTS; COMBINED EFFECT; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; EFFICIENCY GAIN; MONTE CARLO; PD SEEDS; RADIOBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REPOPULATION; SPATIAL DOSE; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; TASK GROUPS; TISSUE HETEROGENEITY;

DOSIMETRY; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; SEED; TISSUE;

EFFICIENCY;

PALLADIUM; RADIOISOTOPE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST TUMOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PALLADIUM; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 84856104379     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/3/809     Document Type: Article

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