Experimental evaluation of a MOSFET dosimeter for proton dose measurements

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 6077-6086

  Kohno, Ryosuke ^a   Nishio, Teiji ^a   Miyagishi, Tomoko ^a   Hirano, Eriko ^a   Hotta, Kenji ^b   Kawashima, Mitsuhiko ^a   Ogino, Takashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; ENERGY TRANSFER; MOSFET DEVICES; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS;

BRAGG CURVES; DOSE MEASUREMENTS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER (LET); THOMSON AND NIELSEN (CO);

DOSIMETERS;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; EVALUATION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR DOSIMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON DOSIMETRY; PROTON RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; METALS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; SEMICONDUCTORS; TRANSISTORS;

EID: 33846882152     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/23/009     Document Type: Article

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