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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
693
pubmed:dateCreated
1987-1-14
pubmed:abstractText
A method is described for calculating absolute "operational" values of the parameters alpha and beta that characterise dose fractionation data for tissues, by using the steepness of dose-incidence curves measured around each dose per fraction investigated. The values are deduced from published mouse lethality data after irradiation of the bone marrow (alpha = 0.9 Gy-1; beta = 0.06 Gy-2), the lung (alpha = 0.14 Gy-1; beta = 0.02 Gy-2), and the oesophagus (alpha = 0.06 Gy-1; beta = 0.004 Gy-2). With bone marrow and other hierarchical renewal tissues, the operational values apply also to the inactivation of target cells which are the stem cells in the tissue. For other tissue types the interpretation of the values is unknown. The operational values are useful in characterising the steepness of dose-incidence curves for normal tissue injury after different fractionation schedules.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0007-1285
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
58
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
885-90
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1985
pubmed:articleTitle
Deriving absolute values of alpha and beta for dose fractionation, using dose-incidence data.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't