Radiobiological models are essential components of modern radiotherapy. They are increasingly applied to optimize and evaluate the quality of different treatment planning modalities. They are frequently used in designing new radiotherapy clinical trials by estimating the expected therapeutic ratio of new protocols. In radiobiology, the therapeutic ratio is estimated from the expected gain in tu...

Background: Brain necrosis (RN) is a common radiotherapy sequela for brain metastases. Bevacizumab identified as therapeutic strategy RN. This study aimed to the clinical and radiobiological impacts on efficacy of in treating RN following stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS)

Published survival data for Chinese hamster ovarian cells CHO-K1 and their radiosensitive mutant xrs5 after irradiation by carbon ions of energies from 2.4 to 266.4 MeV u(-1) have been analysed using the probabilistic two-stage radiobiological model, which enables to represent the interplay of damage induction and repair processes. The results give support for the hypothesis that the difference...

it is now universally accepted that dna is the main target for damages caused by physical and chemical genotoxicants. although there are different methods to measure directly the induced dna damages but due to fast repair processes in cellular environment, most of the damages would be repaired even before sampling, therefore processed dna damages, i.e. damages left unrepaired after acting repai...