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Figure 8. Three-dimensional visualization of the simulated response of a radiosensitive clinical glioblastoma multiforme tumour to the standard fractionation scheme, for (a) Tc = 24 h and (b) Tc = 72 h at the end of day 8. It is pointed out that total tumour cells include all morphologically existing cells, living (proliferating and quiescent) and dead (but not yet lysed or fragmented) alike. Irradiation schedule starts on the first day of the first week of treatment. Colour Code: red: proliferating cell layer, green: G0 layer, blue: dead cell layer. The colouring criterion "99.8%" was used to visualize the predictions (Figure 5).
