Fluence-to-dose conversion coefficients for monoenergetic proton beams based on the VIP-Man anatomical model

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 219-235

  Bozkurt, A ^a   Xu, X G ^b  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTON;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BLADDER WALL; BONE; BONE MARROW; BRAIN; BREAST; CALCULATION; COLON; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY CONVERSION; ESOPHAGUS; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; KIDNEY; LARGE INTESTINE; LENS; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUSCLE; PANCREAS; PHANTOM; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROSTATE; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; SKIN; SMALL INTESTINE; SPLEEN; STOMACH WALL; TESTIS; THYMUS; THYROID GLAND; WHOLE BODY TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; VISIBLE HUMAN PROJECTS;

EID: 11244271504     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch393     Document Type: Article

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