Spatial fragment distribution from a therapeutic pencil-like carbon beam in water

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 3393-3403

  Matsufuji, Naruhiro ^a   Komori, Masataka ^a   Sasaki, Hitomi ^b   Akiu, Kengo ^b   Ogawa, Masako ^b   Fukumura, Akifumi ^a   Urakabe, Eriko ^a   Inaniwa, Taku ^b   Nishio, Teiji ^c   Kohno, Toshiyuki ^b   Kanai, Tatsuaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY IONS; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIATION; SCATTERING; SCINTILLATION;

CARBON BEAMS; FERMI MOMENTUM; MULTIPLE SCATTERING FORMULA; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; PROJECTILE FRAGMENTS; THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT;

TUMORS;

CARBON; WATER;

ARTICLE; HEAVY ION RADIATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCINTILLATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CARBON; HEAVY IONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WATER;

EID: 22244479352     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/14/014     Document Type: Article

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