Nuclear interactions of 160 MeV protons stopping in copper: A test of Monte Carlo nuclear models

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2597-2601

  Gottschalk, Bernard ^a   Platais, Rachel ^a   Paganetti, Harald ^b  

^a Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

160 MeV; Monte Carlo; Nuclear interactions; Nuclear models; Stopping protons

Indexed keywords

160 MEV; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BUILD-UP REGION; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; INELASTIC NUCLEAR INTERACTIONS; MONTE CARLO PROGRAMS; NUCLEAR INTERACTION; NUCLEAR MODEL;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

COPPER; PROTON;

ARTICLE; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033407099     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598799     Document Type: Article

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