Course book Advanced Treatment Planning 2018
Equivalent Uniform Dose
➢ The EUD is base on the assumption that two dose distributions are equivalent if they produce the same radiobiological or clinical effect (end-point) ➢ D j : the dose in the volum bin ➢ v j : volum bin ➢ a : parameter that describes the serial/parallel structure of the organ
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Niemierko A. A Concept of Equivalent Uniform Dose (EUD). Volume & Kinetics in Tumor Control & Normal Tissue Complications. 5 th International Conference on Dose, Time and Fractionation in Radiation Oncology. 1998
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