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Equivalent Uniform Dose - EUD
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Reduces an inhomogeneous dose distribution to an equivalent
homogeneous dose
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Can then be described by a single dose parameter
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Useful and worth understanding
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Gay HA, Niemierko A. A free program for calculating EUD-based
NTCP and TCP in external beam radiotherapy. Phys Med. 2007;
23(3-4): 115-25
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Niemierko A. Reporting and analyzing dose distributions: a concept
of equivalent uniform dose. Med Phys. 1997; 24(1): 103-10.