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Irradiator Commissioning and Dosimetry for Assessment of LQ α and β Parameters, Radiation Dosing Schema, and in vivo Dose Deposition
Published on: March 11, 2021
A new inverse regression model applied to radiation biodosimetry
Manuel Higueras1, Pedro Puig2, Elizabeth A Ainsbury3
1Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Public Health England , Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0RQ, UK ; Departament de Matemàtiques , Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona , Bellaterra, Barcelona 08193, Spain.
Abstract:
Biological dosimetry based on chromosome aberration scoring in peripheral blood lymphocytes enables timely assessment of the ionizing radiation dose absorbed by an individual. Here, new Bayesian-type count data inverse regression methods are introduced for situations where responses are Poisson or two-parameter compound Poisson distributed. Our Poisson models are calculated in a closed form, by means of Hermite and negative binomial (NB) distributions. For compound Poisson responses, complete and simplified models are provided. The simplified models are also expressible in a closed form and involve the use of compound Hermite and compound NB distributions. Three examples of applications are given that demonstrate the usefulness of these methodologies in cytogenetic radiation biodosimetry and in radiotherapy. We provide R and SAS codes which reproduce these examples.
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