Radiotherapy treatment planning : linear-quadratic radiobiology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Chapman, J. Donald (Author), Nahum, Alan E. (Author)
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Cancer > Radiotherapy. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.