Clinical calculations of physical and biological effective dose distributions in proton and carbon ion therapy using the FLUKA Monte Carlo code

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5612-5615

  Mairani, A ^a,b   Parodi, K ^a   Brons, S ^a   Cerutti, F ^c   Ferrari, A ^c   Gadioli, E ^d   Scholz, M ^e   Sommerer, F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TREATMENT; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVE DOSE; CARBON ION THERAPY; CT (COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY); DOSE DEPOSITION; HADRON THERAPY; LOCAL EFFECTS; MONTE CARLO CODES; PHYSICAL DATABASE; PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; PRIMARY BEAMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; MEDICAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 67649209780     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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