Response to Khodamoradi: Methodological clarifications regarding NanOx predictions in helium SOBP
Thomas Berger, Gersende Alphonse, Mario Alcocer-Avila, Caterina Monini, Charbel Koumeir, Claire Rodriguez-Lafrasse, Nicolas Varmenot, Vincent Métivier, Ferid Haddad, Jean Michel Létang, Étienne Testa · 2026
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Description
Berger and co-authors wrote a reply, published in 2026, to a critic of their model of cell survival under particle radiation. The model predicts how many cells survive beams used in cancer treatment. A critic had charged that the team tuned the model on one cell line and then claimed success on the same cells. The reply says this charge rests on a misreading of the methods.
The authors explain that survival depends on the beam as well as the cells. They tuned the model with data from proton and carbon beams. They then tested it on helium beams, a different beam type, in the same cell line. That makes the test a real check, not a repeat of the tuning data. The reply answers the critic's second concern in the same way, point by point. It aims to clear up how the model's tests were set up.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Thomas Berger, Gersende Alphonse, Mario Alcocer-Avila, Caterina Monini, Charbel Koumeir, Claire Rodriguez-Lafrasse, Nicolas Varmenot, Vincent Métivier, Ferid Haddad, Jean Michel Létang, Étienne Testa |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 5 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |