Generalization of a model of tissue response to radiation based on the idea of functional subunits and binomial statistics
Generalization of a model of tissue response to radiation based on the idea of functional subunits and binomial statistics
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DOI：
10.1088/0031-9155/46/5/312
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发表时间：
2001-05-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Goitein, M
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作者：
Stavrev, P;Stavreva, N;Goitein, M
This work investigates the existing biological models describing the response of tumours and normal tissues to radiation, with the purpose of developing a general biological model of the response of tissue to radiation. Two different types of normal tissue behaviour have been postulated with respect to its response to radiation, namely critical element and critical volume behaviour. Based on the idea that an organ is composed of functional subunits, models have been developed describing these behaviours. However, these models describe the response of an individual, a particular patient or experimental animal, while the clinically or experimentally observed quantity is the population response. There is a need to extend the models to address the population response, based on the ideas we have about the individual response. We have attempted here to summarize and unify the existing individual models. Finally, the population models are investigated by fitting to pseudo-experimental sets of data and comparing them with each other in terms of goodness-of-fit and in terms of their power to recover the values of the population parameters.
