Spread-out Bragg peak and monitor units calculation with the Monte Carlo Code MCNPX

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 680-688

  Herault J ^a   Iborra, N ^a   Serrano, B ^b   Chauvel, P ^a  

^a CENTRE ANTOINE LACASSAGNE   (France)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER PRINCESSE GRACE   (Monaco)

Author keywords

MCNPX; Monte Carlo; MU; Proton; SOBP

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; QUALITY CONTROL;

CALIBRATION SYSTEM; ISOCHRONOUS CYCLOTRONS; MCNPX; PROTON BEAM LINES; QUALITY CONTROL MEASUREMENT; SEMI-EMPIRICAL CALCULATION; SOBP; SPREAD OUT BRAGG PEAKS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYCLOTRON; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION MONITOR; SIMULATION;

EID: 33846574235     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2431473     Document Type: Article

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