Ion-Kill Dosimetry

Authors

Robert Katz, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
F. A. Cucinotta, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TXFollow
M. Fromm, University of Franche-Comté, Besançon (France)Follow
A. Chambaudet, University of Franche-Comté, Besançon (France)

Date of this Version

May 2000

Comments

Presented at 1st International Workshop on Space Radiation Research and 11th Annual NASA Space Radiation Health Investigators’ Workshop, Arona, Italy, May 27-31, 2000.
Published in Physica Medica - Vol. XVII, Supplement 1, 2001, pp.164-165.

Abstract

Unanticipated late effects in neutron and heavy ion therapy, not attributable to overdose, imply a qualitative difference between low and high LET therapy. We identify that difference as ‘ion kill’, associated with the spectrum of z/β in the radiation field, whose measurement we label ‘ion-kill dosimetry’.