Calculated depth-dose distributions for H+ and He+ beams in liquid water

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 267, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2647-2652

  Garcia Molina, Rafael ^a   Abril, Isabel ^b   Denton, Cristian D ^b   Heredia Avalos, Santiago ^b   Kyriakou, Ioanna ^c   Emfietzoglou, Dimitris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bragg peak; Depth dose distributions; Dielectric formalism; Energy loss function; Liquid water; Mean excitation energy; Stopping power

Indexed keywords

BRAGG PEAK; DEPTH-DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DIELECTRIC FORMALISM; ENERGY LOSS FUNCTION; LIQUID WATER; MEAN EXCITATION ENERGY; STOPPING POWER;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; EXCITATION ENERGY; HELIUM; IONIZATION; PROJECTILES; TARGETS;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 68349155564     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2009.05.038     Document Type: Article

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