Letter: Formulas for the calculation of the total dose in fractionated radiotherapy.
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and that its computation presents a challenge in arithmetic. Such arguments are the antithesis of the scientific method since it presents no sound basis for rejecting or refining a model that has been proposed and is in use. Spring did not show that his model gave a better prediction than the Ellis formula for the total dose required, whereas Ellis has shown some success for his model (1). He did not discuss any deviations from existing formulas that might arise using his formula. Table 1 shows an extreme
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Cancer research
دوره 33 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1973