BIOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF THERAPEUTIC PROTON-BEAMS

Authors
BECKER R BIENEN J CARL U CLOTH P DELLERT M DRUKE V EYRICH W FILGES D FRITSCH M HAUFFE J HOFFMANN W KOBUS H MAIER R MOOSBURGER M OLKO P PAGANETTI H PETERSON HP SCHMITZ T SCHWENKE K SPERL R
Citation
R. Becker et al., BIOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF THERAPEUTIC PROTON-BEAMS, Radiation protection dosimetry, 70(1-4), 1997, pp. 485-492
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Radiology,Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging","Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology
Journal title
Radiation protection dosimetry → ACNP
ISSN journal
01448420
Volume
70
Issue
1-4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
485 - 492
Database
ISI
SICI code
0144-8420(1997)70:1-4<485:BIOTP>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
The KFA programme to gather the necessary dosimetric and biophysical i nformation to develop optimal dose calculation routines for conformal proton radiation therapy is introduced. First experiments in a water p hantom and with a plastic phantom are presented for incident protons o f 175.5 MeV. Furthermore, the first detailed biophysical investigation s on the RBE dependence of monoenergetic and energetically spread out proton beams is described and the results are discussed.