Physics study of microbeam radiation therapy with PSI-version of Monte Carlo code GEANT as a new computational tool

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1664-1675

  Stepanek, J ^a,b   Blattmann, H ^b   Laissue, J A ^a   Lyubimova, N ^a   Di Michiel, M ^c   Slatkin, D N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; HISTOLOGY; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS; X RAYS;

ABSORBED DOSE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORIES; MICROBEAM RADIATION THERAPY; PHOTOIONIZATION CROSS SECTION; THERAPEUTIC EFFICACY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; IONIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICRODOSIMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION PHYSICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAT; SYNCHROTRON; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TUMOR REGRESSION; X RAY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033867218     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.599034     Document Type: Article

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