Semi-empirical formulation of multiple scattering for the Gaussian beam model of heavy charged particles stopping in tissue-like matter

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Kanematsu, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FORMULATIONS; BODY TISSUES; DOSE CALCULATIONS; END POINTS; HEAVY CHARGED PARTICLES; INCIDENT PARTICLES; LINEAR FORMULAS; PATH INTEGRALS; RESIDUAL RANGES; RMS DISPLACEMENTS; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; SIMPLE MODELS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; INSTRUMENT SCALES; QUANTUM THEORY;

SCATTERING;

WATER;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HEAVY IONS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 63649116396     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/5/N01     Document Type: Article

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