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Radiobiology

a model in which an organ fails when the number of surviving functional subunits drops below a critical fraction of the organ.

In radiobiology, critical volume model refers to a model in which an organ fails when the number of surviving functional subunits drops below a critical fraction of the organ. This meaning comes from Niemierko (1993) in International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics.[1]

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References

Niemierko, A., & Goitein, M. (1993). Modeling of normal tissue response to radiation: The critical volume model. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, 25(1), 135-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/0360-3016(93)90156-p

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