Relative biologic effectiveness (RBE) of 50 kV X-rays measured in a phantom for intraoperative tumor-bed irradiation

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1127-1133

  Liu, Qi ^a   Schneider, Frank ^a   Ma, Lin ^a   Wenz, Frederik ^a   Herskind, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CONSERVING SURGERY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; INACTIVATION OF CELLS; INTRAOPERATIVE RADIATION THERAPIES; METHODS AND MATERIALS; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; SURVIVING FRACTIONS;

APPLICATORS; CELL CULTURE; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; IRRADIATION; REPAIR; SURGERY; TUMORS;

X RAYS;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CELL SURVIVAL; COLLIMATOR; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HAMSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRAOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; MACHINE; NONHUMAN; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOLOGY PHANTOM; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; SKIN FIBROBLAST; UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL; X RAY; X RAY TUBE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 84875214843     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.08.005     Document Type: Article

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