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Radiobiological dose-response models
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Mechanistic models
: radiobiological basis
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energy deposition in tissue
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clinical/biological effect
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adequate mechanistic models are hard to construct…
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Empirical/phenomenological models
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describe observed clinical effect as dose-response relationship
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find a way to substitute lack of biological knowledge with
clinical experience: “let the data speak”