Comparison of Biological Effectiveness of Carbon-Ion Beams in Japan and Germany

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1545-1551

  Uzawa, Akiko ^a   Ando, Koichi ^a   Koike, Sachiko ^a   Furusawa, Yoshiya ^a   Matsumoto, Yoshitaka ^a   Takai, Nobuhiko ^a   Hirayama, Ryoichi ^a   Watanabe, Masahiko ^a   Scholz, Michael ^b   Elsässer, Thilo ^b   Peschke, Peter ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung ^*  (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon ion beams; Crypt survivals; Fractionated dose; LET; SOBP

Indexed keywords

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BRAGG CELLS; COBALT; ION BEAMS; ION BOMBARDMENT; LIGHTING FIXTURES;

BEAM DEPTHS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; BRAGG PEAKS; CARBON IONS; CHIBA ,JAPAN; COBALT-60; COLONY FORMATIONS; CRYPT SURVIVALS; FRACTIONATED DOSE; FRACTIONATED IRRADIATIONS; GERMANY; IN-VITRO; LET; MEDICAL ACCELERATORS; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SALIVARY GLAND TUMORS; SINGLE DOSE; SMALL INTESTINES; SOBP; STANDARD DEVIATIONS;

IONS;

COBALT 60;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL KILLING; CELL SURVIVAL; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GERMANY; IN VITRO STUDY; ION THERAPY; IRRADIATION; JAPAN; JEJUNUM; MOUSE; MURINAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SALIVARY GLAND TUMOR; SMALL INTESTINE; SMALL INTESTINE TUMOR; TUMOR CELL;

ANIMALS; CARBON; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEAVY IONS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; JAPAN; JEJUNUM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SALIVARY GLAND NEOPLASMS; TUMOR STEM CELL ASSAY;

EID: 62649126276     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.12.021     Document Type: Article

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