Dose profile monitoring with carbon ions by means of prompt-gamma measurements

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

Volumn 267, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 993-996

  Testa, E ^a   Bajard, M ^a   Chevallier, M ^a   Dauvergne, D ^a   Le Foulher, F ^a   Freud, N ^b   Letang J M ^b   Poizat, J C ^a   Ray, C ^a   Testa, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Hadrontherapy; Monitoring; Prompt gamma rays

Indexed keywords

CARBON IONS; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; DOSE PROFILE; EMISSION PROFILE; GAMMA MEASUREMENTS; GAMMA-RAY MEASUREMENT; GOOD CORRELATIONS; HADRONTHERAPY; ION RANGES; ION THERAPY; KEYPOINTS; LONGITUDINAL PROFILE; NUCLEAR FRAGMENTATION; OBSERVATION ANGLE; PRIMARY BEAMS; PROMPT GAMMA-RAYS; REAL TIME; REAL TIME MONITORING; TIME OF FLIGHT;

DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; IONS; MONITORING; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 69949089184     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2009.02.031     Document Type: Article

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