Impact of respiratory motion on variable relative biological effectiveness in 4D-dose distributions of proton therapy.

CONCLUSION: For the studied liver case, intrafractional motion did not reduce the modulation of the RBE-weighted dose postulated by variable RBE models for proton treatments.
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Source: Acta Oncologica - August 22, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Ulrich S, Wieser HP, Cao W, Mohan R, Bangert M Tags: Acta Oncol Source Type: research