Analysis of inelastic interactions for therapeutic proton beams using Monte Carlo simulation

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 6 I, 2004, Pages 3019-3025

  Rosenfeld, Anatoly B ^a   Wroe, Andrew J ^a   Cornelius, Iwan M ^a   Reinhard, Mark ^b   Alexiev, Dimitri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA; DOSE DISTRIBUTION; DOSE PLANNING; INELASTIC SCATTER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROTON BEAMS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 11044223859     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.839072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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