An empirical model of proton RBE based on the linear correlation between x-ray and proton radiosensitivity.
Flint DB, Ruff CE, Bright SJ, Yepes P, Wang Q, Manandhar M, Ben Kacem M, Turner BX, Martinus DKJ, Shaitelman SF, Sawakuchi GO.
Flint DB, et al.
Med Phys. 2022 Sep;49(9):6221-6236. doi: 10.1002/mp.15850. Epub 2022 Jul 28.
Med Phys. 2022.
PMID: 35831779
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However, in a clinical setting, proton RBE is still considered to have a fixed value of 1.1 despite the existence of several empirical models that can predict proton RBE based on how a cell's survival curve (linear-quadratic model [LQM]) parameters alpha and beta vary with …
However, in a clinical setting, proton RBE is still considered to have a fixed value of 1.1 despite the existence of several empirical model …