Physics settings for using the Geant4 toolkit in proton therapy

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1018-1025

  Jarlskog, Christina Zacharatou ^a   Paganetti, Harald ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Geant4; Monte Carlo; Physics validation; Proton therapy

Indexed keywords

FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); PARTICLE BEAMS; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; STANDARDS;

ALTERNATIVE PROCESSES; BINARY CASCADE; CHARGE PROFILING; CLINICAL PROTON BEAMS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC (EM); FARADAY CUPS; IN ORDER; MEASURED DEPTH (MD); MONTE CARLO (MC); MULTILAYER (ML); NUCLEAR PROCESSING; PROTON THERAPY; SIMULATION AND MEASUREMENT;

PHYSICS;

EID: 45849111096     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.922816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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