Double-differential spectra of secondary particles from hadrons on tissue equivalent targets

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-41

  Porta, Alessandro ^a   Agosteo, Stefano ^a,b   Campi, Fabrizio ^a   Caresana, Marco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; CARBON; HELIUM; HYDROGEN; LITHIUM; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON; HADRON; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUTRON; PHOTON; PION; POSITRON; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION PROTECTION; SPECTROSCOPY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; IONS; MALE; MUSCLES; NEUTRONS; PHOTONS; PROTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 57849159791     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncn273     Document Type: Article

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