… Carbon ion therapy is a promising evolving modality in radiotherapy to treat tumors that
are radioresistant against photon treatments. As carbon ions are more effective in normal and …

… carbon ions. HIT studied helium ion beams using measurements and Monte Carlo simulation
… Treatment planning for carbon ions is similar to that of protons; the only major difference is …

… term relating RBE for tumor initiation versus LET for carbon; <… our risk model, and the absorbed
dose within the simple model … our full model indicate that, on average, carbon-ion therapy …

… 200 kV x ray in the original model to that at the center of a carbon ion “reference SOBP.” This
… using a different RBE model to achieve results similar to those reported by another facility? …

… model for the carbon ion RBE [27]. The MKM is mainly used in Japan for carbon ion
radiotherapy… Here, γ characterizes the beam quality and is related to the variance of the …

… and carbon ion RBE in representative spread-out Bragg peaks is derived using the mechanistic
repair-misrepair-fixation (RMF) model… Similar trends in α across a SOBP are found in the …

… (RBE) in carbon ion therapy and associated models toward the … dose (D RBE ) modeling
for carbon ions using LEM1 and is it … Which RBE model should current and future heavy ion …

… advantages of carbon ions compared to X-rays are similar to … treatment of some cancers
characterized by high mortality. … Pre-clinical studies with C-ions therapy in a swine model gave …

… advantageous for the treatment of tumors that are radio-resistant to conventional radiotherapy
and/or … Comparing clinical results obtained with carbon ion radiotherapy (CIRT) at different …

… Treatment planning for carbon ion therapy requires an accurate modeling of the biological
… during the optimization, treatment plans were obtained that were of similar quality as the …