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Published in 2022 at "Medical physics"
DOI: 10.1002/mp.15796
Abstract: BACKGROUND The effectiveness of ionizing radiation regarding DNA damage induction depends on its spatial energy deposition pattern. For electrons an increased effectiveness is observed at low kinetic energies due to the enhanced density of energy… read more here.
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Published in 2022 at "Medical physics"
DOI: 10.1002/mp.15824
Abstract: PURPOSE We assessed whether adding sodium borocaptate (BSH) or 4-borono-L-phenylalanine (BPA) to cells irradiated with proton beams influenced the biological effectiveness of those beams against prostate cancer cells to investigate if the alpha particles generated… read more here.
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Published in 2017 at "Acta Oncologica"
DOI: 10.1080/0284186x.2017.1354131
Abstract: Abstract Background: Organ motion during radiation therapy with scanned protons leads to deviations between the planned and the delivered physical dose. Using a constant relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of 1.1 linearly maps these deviations into… read more here.
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Published in 2020 at "Physics in medicine and biology"
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/abc12d
Abstract: IntroductionA constant relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of 1.1 is currently used in clinical proton therapy. However, the RBE varies with factors such as dose level, linear energy transfer (LET) and tissue type. Multiple RBE models… read more here.
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Published in 2023 at "Journal of Radiation Research"
DOI: 10.1093/jrr/rrad001
Abstract: Abstract Human head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cells transfected with mutant TP53 (SAS/mp53) or neo vector (SAS/neo) were inoculated subcutaneously into left hind legs of nude mice. After the subcutaneous administration of a 10B-carrier,… read more here.
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Published in 2022 at "Cancer Science"
DOI: 10.1111/cas.15446
Abstract: Biological effectiveness and relative biological effectiveness are critical for proton and ion beam radiotherapy. However, the relationship between the two quantities and physical character of ion beams is not well established. By analyzing 1188 sets… read more here.
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Published in 2023 at "Radiation Research"
DOI: 10.1667/rade-22-00141.1
Abstract: Chromosome aberrations (CAs) are large scale structural rearrangements to the genome that have been used as a proxy endpoint of mutagenic and carcinogenic potential. And yet, many types of CAs are incapable of causing either… read more here.
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Published in 2023 at "In Vivo"
DOI: 10.21873/invivo.13175
Abstract: Background/Aim: This study aimed to confirm the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) values of the proton beam therapy (PBT) system installed in Shonan Kamakura General Hospital. Materials and Methods: Clonogenic cell-survival assays were performed with a… read more here.
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Published in 2022 at "Cancers"
DOI: 10.3390/cancers14051262
Abstract: Simple Summary Grenz rays are low energy X-rays and have been used for dermatological radiotherapy for decades. This study calculates the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) and oxygen enhancement ratio (OER) for DNA double-strand break (DSB)… read more here.