Isabella Colizzi , Per Rugaard Poulsen , Brita Sørensen , David Meer , Antony John Lomax , Serena Psoroulas
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Abstract
We compiled preclinical proton PBS skin toxicity data to assess how various dose rate definitions (field, average, and dose average) explain the FLASH sparing effect. Only average dose rate (ADR), accounting for ‘effective irradiation time,’ reliably describes it. We identified high-dose and ADR regions where the effect was consistently observed.
期刊介绍:
Radiotherapy and Oncology publishes papers describing original research as well as review articles. It covers areas of interest relating to radiation oncology. This includes: clinical radiotherapy, combined modality treatment, translational studies, epidemiological outcomes, imaging, dosimetry, and radiation therapy planning, experimental work in radiobiology, chemobiology, hyperthermia and tumour biology, as well as data science in radiation oncology and physics aspects relevant to oncology.Papers on more general aspects of interest to the radiation oncologist including chemotherapy, surgery and immunology are also published.