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Robert F Hobbs1, George Sgouros.
Abstract
An algorithmic solution to the biological effective dose (BED) calculation from the Lea-Catcheside formula for a piecewise defined function is presented. Data from patients treated for metastatic thyroid cancer were used to illustrate the solution. The Lea-Catcheside formula for the G-factor of the BED is integrated numerically using a large number of small trapezoidal fits to each integral. The algorithmically calculated BED is compatible with an analytic calculation for a similarly valued exponentially fitted dose-rate plot and is the only resolution for piecewise defined dose-rate functions.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19378750 PMCID: PMC2736747 DOI: 10.1118/1.3070587
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Med Phys ISSN: 0094-2405 Impact factor: 4.071