A comparative study of dielectric response function models for liquid water

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 122, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 61-65

  Emfietzoglou, D ^a   Nikjoo, H ^b   Pathak, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATOM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRON; ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; OSCILLATION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPEDANCE; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOLUTIONS; WATER;

EID: 34347406778     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl414     Document Type: Article

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