Inactivation measurements of yeast along the path of 135 MeV/amu carbon for a beam monitor in medical applications

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 139, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 372-376

  Matsumoto, Shinji ^a,c   Goto, Bunshiro ^b   Furuse, Masako ^b   Kanai, Tatsuaki ^b   Soga, Fuminori ^b  

^a Taiyo Material Co   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c Taiyo Material Chiba   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beam monitor; Energy loss; High energy beam; Medical application; Yeast

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CELLS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; YEAST;

HEAVY ION THERAPY; INACTIVATION RATIO;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 0032044715     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-583X(98)00050-0     Document Type: Article

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