Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research
Robert Katz Publications
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
2000
Abstract
The track theory of cell survival after heavy-ion irradiation is based on the probability of survival after a single-particle transit, called ‘‘ion-kill’’ (not track core), joined to the cumulative effect of δ rays from adjacent ions in a beam, called ‘‘gamma-kill’’ (not penumbra). The model offers a set of equations containing four parameters, E0 and m for the single-hit multitarget statistical model for gamma-kill, and additionally σ0 and κ for ion-kill. A single set of parameters is used to fit a family of survival curves obtained with ions of different LET simultaneously.
Comments
Published in RADIATION RESEARCH 153, 220–238 (2000).