Stray radiation dose and second cancer risk for a pediatric patient receiving craniospinal irradiation with proton beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2259-2275

  Taddei, Phillip J ^a   Mirkovic, Dragan ^a   Fontenot, Jonas D ^a   Giebeler, Annelise ^a   Zheng, Yuanshui ^a   Kornguth, David ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a   Newhauser, Wayne D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISKS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; CRANIOSPINAL IRRADIATIONS; EFFECTIVE DOSE; EQUIVALENT DOSE; HEALTHY TISSUES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; PEDIATRIC PATIENTS; PROTON BEAM RADIOTHERAPIES; PROTON THERAPIES; PROTON TREATMENTS; SECONDARY RADIATIONS; STRAY RADIATIONS; TREATMENT UNITS;

ATOMS; CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; DOSIMETRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PEDIATRICS; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; RADIATION; RISK PERCEPTION; STRAY LIGHT;

NEUTRON IRRADIATION;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COLON; CRANIOSPINAL IRRADIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; FATALITY; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LIFESPAN; LUNG; MALE; NEURORADIOLOGY; NEUTRON; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SECOND CANCER; SIMULATION; STOMACH;

CHILD; HUMANS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEUTRONS; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RISK; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL; SPINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58149231095     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/8/001     Document Type: Article

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