Oxygen beams for therapy: advanced biological treatment planning and experimental verification

Nowadays there is a rising interest towards exploiting new therapeutical beams beyond carbon ions and protons. In particular, ##IMG## [http://ift.tt/2wGQp5E] {$^{16}$} O ions are being widely discussed due to their increased LET distribution. In this contribution, we report on the first experimental verification of biologically optimized treatment plans, accounting for different biological effects, generated with the TRiP98 planning system with ##IMG## [http://ift.tt/2xmz9pI] {$^{16}$} O beams, performed at HIT and GSI. This implies the measurements of 3D profiles of absorbed dose as well as several biological measurements. The latter includes the measurements of relative biological effectiveness along the range of linear energy transfer values from  ≈20 up to  ≈750 keV μ ##IMG## [http://ej.iop.org/imag...] {${\rm m}^{-1}$}

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