Biophysical calculation of cell survival probabilities using amorphous track structure models for heavy-ion irradiation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 37-59

  Kase, Yuki ^a   Kanai, Tatsuaki ^a   Matsufuji, Naruhiro ^a   Furusawa, Yoshiya ^a   Elsässer, Thilo ^b   Scholz, Michael ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Biophysics Group   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY IONS; ION BEAMS; IRRADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS;

LOCAL EFFECT MODEL (LEM); MICRODOSIMETRIC KINETIC MODEL (MKM);

CELL CULTURE;

CARBON; HEAVY ION; HELIUM; NEON;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICRODOSIMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; CARBON; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HEAVY IONS; HELIUM; HUMANS; ISOTOPES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEON; NEOPLASMS; PROBABILITY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 38049052998     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/1/003     Document Type: Article

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