BCRB 2018

Dependence of RBE on the type of cell irradiated

• Cells which exhibit large shoulders in their X-ray survival curves tend to have high RBEs • Cells with little, if any, shoulder tend to have low RBEs • There are exceptions, due to the different interaction mechanisms between low and high LET radiations e.g. cell-cycle effect

Michael Joiner

Basic Clinical Radiobiology 2018

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