What is the Clinically Relevant Relative Biologic Effectiveness? A Warning for Fractionated Treatments With High Linear Energy Transfer Radiation

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 867-874

  Daşu, Alexandru ^a   Toma Daşu, Iuliana ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

High LET; Linear energy transfer; Linear quadratic modeling; Low LET; RBE; Relative biologic effectiveness; Therapeutic radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; RADIATION EFFECTS; TISSUE;

LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; LINEAR QUADRATIC MODELING; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; THERAPEUTIC RADIOTHERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRON; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; PHOTON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION RESPONSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 38849102413     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.07.2358     Document Type: Article

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