• Title of article

    Modeling Radiotherapy Induced Normal Tissue Complications: An Overview beyond Phenomenological Models

  • Author/Authors

    D’Andrea, Marco Laboratory of Medical Physics and Expert Systems - Regina Elena National Cancer Institute - Rome, Italy , Benassi, Marcello Laboratory of Medical Physics and Expert Systems - Regina Elena National Cancer Institute - Rome, Italy , Strigari, Lidia Laboratory of Medical Physics and Expert Systems - Regina Elena National Cancer Institute - Rome, Italy

  • Pages
    9
  • From page
    1
  • To page
    9
  • Abstract
    An overview of radiotherapy (RT) induced normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) models is presented. NTCP models based on empirical and mechanistic approaches that describe a specific radiation induced late effect proposed over time for conventional RT are reviewed with particular emphasis on their basic assumptions and related mathematical translation and their weak and strong points.
  • Keywords
    Phenomenological , NTCP , LQ , assumptions
  • Journal title
    Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
  • Serial Year
    2016
  • Record number

    2606367