Experimental fragmentation studies with 12C therapy beams

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 122, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 485-487

  Haettner, E ^a,b   Iwase, H ^a   Schardt, D ^a  

^a Biophysik   (Germany)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; HEAVY ION;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PHANTOM; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOTHERAPY; SCINTILLATION; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS;

ANIMALS; BODY BURDEN; CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAVY IONS; HUMANS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 34347385858     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl402     Document Type: Article

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