Incorporating biological modeling into patient-specific plan verification.

CONCLUSION: Dose measurements on a phantom can be used for pretreatment estimation of tumor control and normal tissue complication probabilities. Results in this study show how biological modeling can be used to provide additional insight about accuracy of delivery during pretreatment verification.
PMID: 32101368 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics - February 25, 2020 Category: Physics Authors: Alexandrian AN, Mavroidis P, Narayanasamy G, McConnell KA, Kabat CN, George RB, Defoor DL, Kirby N, Papanikolaou N, Stathakis S Tags: J Appl Clin Med Phys Source Type: research