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Biological Impact of Target Fragments on Proton Treatment Plans: An Analysis Based on the Current Cross-Section Data and a Full Mixed Field Approach

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Proton therapy is now an established external radiotherapy modality for cancer treatment. Clinical routine currently neglects the radiobiological impact of nuclear target fragments even if experimental evidences show a significant enhancement in cell-killing effect due to secondary p...

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Autores principales: Bellinzona, Elettra Valentina, Grzanka, Leszek, Attili, Andrea, Tommasino, Francesco, Friedrich, Thomas, Krämer, Michael, Scholz, Michael, Battistoni, Giuseppe, Embriaco, Alessia, Chiappara, Davide, Cirrone, Giuseppe A. P., Petringa, Giada, Durante, Marco, Scifoni, Emanuele
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8507563/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34638254
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers13194768