A Brachytherapy Plan Evaluation Tool for Interstitial Applications
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A Brachytherapy Plan Evaluation Tool for Interstitial Applications
Radiobiological metrics such as tumor control probability (TCP) and normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) help in assessing the quality of brachytherapy plans. Application of such metrics in clinics as well as research is still inadequate. This study presents the implementation of two indigenously designed plan evaluation modules: Brachy_TCP and Brachy_NTCP. Evaluation tools were constr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Bioinformatics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1687-8027,1687-8035
DOI: 10.1155/2014/376207