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. 2018 Feb 19;45(3):1302. doi: 10.1002/mp.12773

Erratum: “Analysis of the track‐ and dose‐averaged LET and LET spectra in proton therapy using the geant4 Monte Carlo code” [Med. Phys. 42 (11), page range 6234‐6247(2015)]

Fada Guan 1,, Christopher Peeler 1,, Lawrence Bronk 2, Changran Geng 3,4, Reza Taleei 1, Sharmalee Randeniya 1, Shuaiping Ge 1, Dragan Mirkovic 1, David Grosshans 2,5, Radhe Mohan 1, Uwe Titt 1,
PMCID: PMC6963003  PMID: 29527697

Text of erratum

The equation (11) in the originating article1

αp=αxRBEDSB+z¯F·RBEDSB2αx/βx (11)

should be corrected to:

αp=αxRBEDSB+2·z¯F·RBEDSB2αx/βx ((11)_corrected)

The original formula is the equation (6) in the reference by Polster et al.2

References

  • 1. Guan F, Peeler C, Bronk L, et al. Analysis of the track‐ and dose‐averaged LET and LET spectra in proton therapy using the geant4 Monte Carlo code. Med Phys. 2015;42:6234–6247. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  • 2. Polster L, Schuemann J, Rinaldi I, et al. Extension of TOPAS for the simulation of proton radiation effects considering molecular and cellular endpoints. Phys Med Biol. 2015;60:5053. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

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