Publications [#63211] of Mark W. Dewhirst

Papers Published

1. Oleson, J.R. and Dewhirst, M.W. and Duncan, D. and Engler, M. and Thrall, D., Temperature gradients: prognostic and dosimetric implications, Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference of the IEEE/Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Frontiers of Engineering and Computing in Health Care - 1985 (Cat. No. 85CH2198-0) (1985), pp. 355 - 60, Chicago, IL, USA
   (last updated on 2007/04/14)

   Abstract:
   The authors review the evidence relating minimum measured intratumoral temperature and percentage of measured sites exceeding 42.5°C (ETV) to response of tumors treated with radiation and hyperthermia. Sources of intertreatment and intratreatment variation in observed temperature distributions are summarized, and several types of variation are illustrated. Improved quality control of treatments as well as measurements of blood perfusion distribution are necessary to develop further a science of thermal dosimetry yielding prognostically important dose-effect relationships

   Keywords:
   biothermics;dosimetry;patient treatment;