Dosimetry in radiobiological studies with the heavy ion beam of the Warsaw cyclotron

• DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2015.07.101
• Publication Date: 2015-07-30T01:20:23Z
• Authors: U. Kaźmierczak; D. Banaś; J. Braziewicz; J. Czub; M. Jaskóła; A. Korman; M. Kruszewski; A. Lankoff; H. Lisowska; A. Malinowska; T. Stępkowski; Z. Szefliński; M. Wojewódzka
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine

Abstract The aim of this study was to verify various dosimetry methods in the irradiation of biological materials with a 12C ion beam at the Heavy Ion Laboratory of the University of Warsaw. To this end the number of ions hitting the cell nucleus, calculated on the basis of the Si-detector system used in the set-up, was compared with the number of ion tracks counted in irradiated Solid State Nuclear Track Detectors and with the number of ion tracks detected in irradiated Chinese Hamster Ovary cells processed for the γ-H2AX assay. Tests results were self-consistent and confirmed that the system serves its dosimetric purpose.