Impact of enhancements in the local effect model (LEM) on the predicted RBE-weighted target dose distribution in carbon ion therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 7261-7274

  Grun R ^a,b,c   Friedrich, T ^a   Elsasser T ^a,g   Kramer M ^a   Zink, K ^b,d   Karger, C P ^e   Durante, M ^a,f   Engenhart Cabillic, R ^c,d   Scholz, M ^a  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE MITTELHESSEN   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

^e GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^f DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^g SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ION THERAPY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; CHORDOMA; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE LEVELS; DOSE RESPONSE; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; IN-VITRO; INPUT PARAMETER; LOCAL CONTROL; LOCAL EFFECTS; PILOT PROJECTS; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SKULL BASE; TARGET REGIONS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR CONTROL; TUMOR VOLUMES;

OPTIMIZATION; TUMORS;

CARBON;

CARBON;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS;

CARBON; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 84869027497     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/22/7261     Document Type: Article

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