On the feasibility of water calorimetry with scanned proton radiation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 5381-5400

  Sassowsky, M ^a   Pedroni, E ^b  

^a Swiss Federal Office of Metrology   (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; PROTONS; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

HOMOGENEITY; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER (LET); PHOTON RADIATION; WATER CALORIMETRY;

CALORIMETRY;

COBALT 60; WATER;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CALORIMETRY; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; FEASIBILITY STUDY; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; STANDARD; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CALORIMETRY; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WATER;

EID: 27644585527     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 00319155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/22/011     Document Type: Article

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