Table 1.
Compound biological effectiveness, relative biological effectiveness, and boron concentration parameters in the dose calculation.
CBE | RBE (Nitrogen) |
RBE (Hydrogen) |
RBE (gamma-ray) |
Tissue-to-blood ratio of boron concentration |
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tumor | 4.0 (4) | 3.0 (2) | 3.0 (13) | 1.0 | 3.5 (4) |
Skin | 2.5 (4) | 3.0 (2) | 3.0 (13) | 1.0 | 1.4 (14) |
CBE, Compound biological effectiveness; RBE, relative biological effectiveness.