Reformulation of a clinical-dose system for carbon-ion radiotherapy treatment planning at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Japan

Inaniwa, Taku; Kanematsu, Nobuyuki; Matsufuji, Naruhiro; Kanai, Tatsuaki; Shirai, Toshiyuki; Noda, K.; Tsuji, Hiroshi; Kamada, Tadashi; Tsujii, Hirohiko

doi:10.1088/0031-9155/60/8/3271

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Reformulation of a clinical-dose system for carbon-ion radiotherapy treatment planning at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Japan

Published in Physics in Medicine and Biology • Mar 31, 2015

Authors:

Taku Inaniwa

Nobuyuki Kanematsu

Naruhiro Matsufuji

Abstract

At the National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS), more than 8,000 patients have been treated for various tumors with carbon-ion (C-ion) radiotherapy in the past 20 years based on a radiobiologically defined clinical-dose system. Through clinical experience, including extensive dose escalati...

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Relative biological effectiveness

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Radiation therapy

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