Microdosimetric evaluation of the 400 MeV/nucleon carbon beam at HIMAC

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3843-3848

  Endo, Satoru ^a   Tanaka, Kenichi ^a   Ishikawa, Masayori ^a,f   Hoshi, Masaharu ^a   Onizuka, Yoshihiko ^b   Takada, Masashi ^c   Yamaguchi, Hiroshi ^c   Hayabuchi, Naofumi ^d   Maeda, Naoko ^e   Shizuma, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e Izumisano Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHANTOMS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; ENERGY RANGES; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; SINGLE EVENT; TIME-OF-FLIGHT DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE EQUIVALENT PROPORTIONAL COUNTER;

CARBON;

BERYLLIUM; BORON; HELIUM; LITHIUM; PROTON; CARBON;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; EVALUATION; ION THERAPY; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; NUCLEON; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; JAPAN; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; STATISTICS;

CARBON; HUMANS; JAPAN; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 33645008468     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2133719     Document Type: Article

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