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Brain

Tumor

Spinal cord

(Peak)

Spinal cord (plateau)

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s there a differen-al RBE for normal and tumor -ssues ?

decreasing the dose/fraction increase the

RBE for both the tumor & normal tissue

but the RBE for the tumor did not increase

as rapidly as the RBE for normal tissue

an advantage for hypofractionation ?