Dose contributions from large-angle scattered particles in therapeutic carbon beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 193-198

  Kusano, Yohsuke ^a,b   Kanai, Tatsuaki ^c,d   Kase, Yuki ^d   Matsufuji, Naruhiro ^c   Komori, Masataka ^c   Kanematsu, Nobuyuki ^c   Ito, Atsushi ^a   Uchida, Hirohisa ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Inage ku   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; IRRADIATION; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; PHANTOMS;

DOSE CONTRIBUTION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; GAUSSIAN COMPONENTS; IRRADIATION FIELDS; MEASUREMENTS OF; NUCLEAR INTERACTION; RADIATION QUALITY; SPREAD OUT BRAGG PEAKS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

CARBON;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY; ION THERAPY; IRRADIATION; MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33845936243     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2402328     Document Type: Article

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