Relative biological effectiveness (RBE) and out-of-field cell survival responses to passive scattering and pencil beam scanning proton beam deliveries

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 6671-6680

  Butterworth, Karl T ^a   McGarry, Conor K ^a,b   Clasie, Ben ^c   Carabe Fernandez, Alejandro ^c   Schuemann, Jan ^c   Depauw, Nicolas ^c,d   Tang, Shikui ^c   McMahon, Stephen J ^a   Schettino, Giuseppe ^a   O'Sullivan, Joe M ^b   Lu, Hsaio Ming ^c   Kooy, Hanne ^c   Paganetti, Harald ^c   Hounsell, Alan R ^a,b   Held, Kathryn D ^c   Prise, Kevin M ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL GROUP OF HOSPITALS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM CONFIGURATION; CELL POPULATIONS; CELL SURVIVAL; CLONOGENIC SURVIVAL; DELIVERY TECHNIQUES; INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS; PENCIL BEAM; PHOTON BEAMS; PROTON DELIVERY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SPREAD OUT BRAGG PEAKS; UNIFORM BEAMS;

CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMMUNICATION; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTONS; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS;

CELLS;

ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL SURVIVAL; HUMAN; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; HUMANS; PROTON THERAPY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84867249727     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/20/6671     Document Type: Article

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