Lineal energy-based evaluation of oxidative DNA damage induced by proton beams and X-rays

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Lineal energy-based evaluation of oxidative DNA damage induced by proton beams and X-rays

To the Editor:

We report an error in unit notation in our original report entitled “Lineal energy-based evaluation of oxidative DNA damage induced by proton beams and X-rays” (International Journal of Radiation Biology, January 2013; 89(1): 36–43).

In lines 11“12, page 42, the unit notations should be “/cm²/Gy” instead of “/cm²/Gy sec”. Thus, the correct statement is as follows: In our experiments, the number of proton particles delivered was estimated to be approximately 1.06 × 10⁹/cm²/Gy and 3.51 × 10⁸/cm²/Gy at the plateau (y* = 4.48 ± 0.56 keV/mm) and near the Bragg peak (y* = 7.02 ± 0.08 keV/mm), respectively.

The authors apologize to the readership for possible inconvenience and are pleased to have the opportunity to make this correction in the printed and online versions of this paper.