Modelling and calculations of the response of tissue equivalent proportional counter to charged particles

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 126, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 512-518

  Nikjoo, Hooshang ^a   Uehara, S ^b   Pinsky, L ^c   Cucinotta, Francis A ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; PROTON; WATER;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; IONIZING RADIATION; IRRADIATION; MICRODOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SIMULATION; SPACE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RADIATION; ELECTRICITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NEUTRON; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RADIATION; ELECTROSTATICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUTRONS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 48249123050     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm103     Document Type: Article

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