Chapman, J. Donald,

Radiotherapy treatment planning : linear-quadratic radiobiology / J. Donald Chapman, Alan E. Nahum. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-159) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. The generation of quantitative radiobiology data -- 3. The intrinsic radiosensitivity of Profiliferating and quiescent cells -- 4. The effects of ionization volume and density -- 5. The importance of fraction size, dose-rate, temperature, and overall treatment time of exposure-- 6. Ionizing events, molecular targets, and lethal lesions -- 7. The radiosensitivity of tumor cells in vitro versus in vivo -- 8. Modern radiobiology and the LQ equation -- 9. Normal tissue radiobiology -- 10. Radiobiology applied to tumor response modeling.

9780429193637

10.1201/b18349 doi


Cancer--Radiotherapy.

RC271.R3 / C43 2015

616.9940642 / C466