2009/06/06 by Óscar Sotolongo‐Grau, Sotolongo-Grau, O., Daniel Rodríguez Pérez +9
Mathematics · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques #Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy #Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph) #Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) #Data Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Biology Tumor Growth #Medical Physics (physics.med-ph) #Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0906.1309
openalex publication_date 2009/06/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
It is possible to find the optimized radiation dose per session for a radiotherapy (RT) treatment, using a population dynamics model. This has already been done in a previous work for a protocol with 30 sessions and a fixed dose per session. Extending this model to other protocols, with a variable number of sessions, we could change the radiation dosage while keeping the success probability of treatment at its maximum value. This could help the RT oncology service managers to plan the sequence of patients and treatments adapting it to the facilities of the oncology service. Besides, if tumor surrounding tissue is not able to afford a high dosage, it could be useful to extend the treatment to a higher number of low dose radiation sessions, keeping an optimal treatment.