Calculations of neutron dose equivalent exposures from range-modulated proton therapy beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 3859-3873

  Polf, Jerimy C ^a   Newhauser, Wayne D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUTRONS; SCATTERING;

NEUTRON DOSES; PROTON THERAPY BEAMS; RANGE MODULATION; TREATMENT BEAMS;

DOSIMETRY;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; RADIATION DOSE;

CYCLOTRONS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRONS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 23744490002     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/16/014     Document Type: Article

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