VOL. XIV, Supplement 1, July 1998


6th Workshop on "Heavy Charged Particles in Biology and Medicine"
Istituto Scientifico Europeo (ISE), Baveno, 29 September - 1 October 1997

• Preface
  
• Programme
  
• List of participants
  

Introduction

L. D. Skarsgard
Radiobiology with heavy charged particles: a historical review
DNA damage and repairs

K. M. Prise, H. C. Newman, M. Folkard and B. D. Michael
A study of DNA fragmentation patterns in cells irradiated with charged particles: evidence for non-random distributions

B. Rydberg, M. Lörbrich and P. K. Cooper
Repair of clustered DNA damage caused by high LET radiation in human fibroblasts

Space research

W. Schimmerling, J. W. Wilson, F. Cucinotta and M-H Y. Kim
Evaluation of risk from a space radiation with high energy heavy ion beams

Mutation and chromosome aberration

S. Ritter
Particle-induced chromosome aberrations and mutations: an overview

Cell and tissue radiobology

C. Fournier, W. Kraft-Weyrather and G. Kraft
Survival, differentiation and collagen secretion of human fibroblasts after irradiation with Carbon ions and X-rays

Treatment planning: the role of clinical RBE

O. Järkel and M. Kärmer
Treatment planning for heavy ion irradiation

Dosimetry

T. Kanai, H. Tomura, N. Matsufuji, Y. Futami, A. Higashi, N. Miyahara, S. Minohara, S. Akagi, H. Yamashita, H. Itoh-Koyama, M. Endo and K. Kawachi
Dosimetric characteristics of the irradiation system at HIMAC

Clinical results of particle therapy and new techniques

H. Tsujii, T. Miyamoto, J. Mizoe, T. Nakano, T. Kamada, H. Kato, Y. Matsuoka, H. Tsuji, A. Abe, S. Morita
Phase I/II dose escalation study with Carbon ions at NIRS

Status reports and future developments

U. Amaldi
Overview of the world landscape of Hadrontherapy and the projects of the TERA foundation

G. Kraft
Heavy-Ion therapy at GSI

P. J. Bryant
Progress of the Proton-Ion Medical Machine Study (PIMMS)