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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 2.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2010 Mar 1;76(3 0):S10–S19. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.07.1754

Figure 2.

Figure 2

As the (idealized) irradiated organ fraction decreases, the tolerance dose (D) increases, more so for larger values of n, or smaller values of a (=1/n). VReference represents the reference volume (usually the full organ volume), and VIrradiated represents the volume irradiated.