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Research Article

NTCP modelling of lung toxicity after SBRT comparing the universal survival curve and the linear quadratic model for fractionation correction

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Pages 518-527 | Received 21 Jun 2010, Accepted 19 Nov 2010, Published online: 04 Jan 2011

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