# OnCo record relative-biological-effectiveness (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/relative-biological-effectiveness/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "relative-biological-effectiveness" ;
  schema:name "Relative biological effectiveness (RBE)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "RBE"@en, "relative biological effectiveness"@en, "RBE 1.1"@en, "variable RBE"@en, "Gy(RBE)"@en ;
  schema:description "How many grays of ordinary X-rays you would need to match the damage from one gray of this radiation. Protons are treated as 1.1 times as damaging as X-rays; that number is a convention, and the true value is higher where the beam stops."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/relative-biological-effectiveness/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-17"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_biological_effectiveness> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_biological_effectiveness>, <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2014.07.001> ;
  onco:tag "radiation-wave5" ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/proton-therapy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/carbon-ion/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/imrt-igrt/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/intensity-modulated-proton-therapy/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/linear-energy-transfer/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/alpha-beta-ratio/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/bragg-peak/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/biologically-effective-dose/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/oxygen-enhancement-ratio/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/partiqol/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/radcomp/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-paganetti-proton-rbe-ijrobp-2014/> .