An analytical model for light ion pencil beam dose distributions: Multiple scattering of primary and secondary ions

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3477-3491

  Hollmark, M ^a   Gudowska, I ^a   Belkic Dz ^a   Brahme, A ^a   Sobolevsky, N ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HEALTH; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ION BOMBARDMENT; IONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; NUCLEAR REACTORS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SCATTERING; SECONDARY EMISSION; SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS; SPUTTERING;

ANALYTICAL APPROACHES; ANALYTICAL MODELLING; ATOMIC NUMBERING; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ENERGY LOSS STRAGGLING; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS; INTEGRAL DOSE; LIGHT IONS; LIGHT-ION BEAMS; MONTE CARLO (MC); MULTIPLE COULOMB SCATTERING (MCS); MULTIPLE-SCATTERING PROCESSES; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; PENCIL BEAM (PB); RANGE STRAGGLING; SECONDARY IONS; SPATIAL ENERGY;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ION THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IONS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; WATER;

EID: 47649096948     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/13/005     Document Type: Article

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