Clinical ion beams: Semi-analytical calculation of their quality

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 7261-7279

  Inaniwa, Taku ^a   Furukawa, Takuji ^a   Matsufuji, Naruhiro ^a   Kohno, Toshiyuki ^b   Sato, Shinji ^a   Noda, Koji ^a   Kanai, Tatsuaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; RADIOTHERAPY;

EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS; RADIATION QUALITY;

ION BEAMS;

CARBON;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; ION THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOBIOLOGY;

CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAVY IONS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 36949018702     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/24/005     Document Type: Article

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