Microdosimetric study for secondary neutrons in phantom produced by a 290 MeVnucleon carbon beam

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3571-3578

  Endo, Satoru ^a   Tanaka, Kenichi ^a   Takada, Masashi ^b   Onizuka, Yoshihiko ^c   Miyahara, Nobuyuki ^b   Sato, Tatsuhiko ^d   Ishikawa, Masayori ^e   Maeda, Naoko ^f   Hayabuchi, Naofumi ^g   Shizuma, Kiyoshi ^a   Hoshi, Masaharu ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f Izumisano Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^g KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Microdoshimetry; Neutron dose; Particle therapy; PHITS; Secondary neutron

Indexed keywords

CARBON; HEAVY IONS; PHANTOMS; SPECTROSCOPY;

MICRODOSHIMETRY; NEUTRON DOSE; PARTICLE THERAPY; PHITS; SECONDARY NEUTRONS;

NEUTRONS;

CARBON;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ION TRANSPORT; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON; NEUTRON DOSIMETRY; NEUTRON RADIATION; NUCLEON; PARTICLE RADIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION PHYSICS;

EID: 34548297597     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2767933     Document Type: Article

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