Monte Carlo based water/medium stopping-power ratios for various ICRP and ICRU tissues

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 6475-6483

  Fernández Varea, José M ^a   Carrasco, Pablo ^b   Panettieri, Vanessa ^c   Brualla, Lorenzo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ELECTRONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRONS; TISSUE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; BRAGG-GRAY VALUES; CORTICAL BONE; FLUENCE DISTRIBUTIONS; WATER/MEDIUM STOPPING-POWER RATIOS;

BIOMATERIALS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CORTICAL BONE; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG; LUNG COLLAPSE; LUNG INFLATION; LUNG VOLUME; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; LUNG; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER; X-RAYS;

EID: 36048936444     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/21/009     Document Type: Article

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