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STATISTICAL MODEL:

Determination of which dosimetric (and/or clincal) variables correlate

significantly with a defined toxicity endpoint

DVH-BASED PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS:

Based on a sigmoid-shaped dose-response curve

MECHANISTIC MODEL

:

A mechanistic model would predict outcome of, in principle, any new

treatment

increasing the number of assumptions