Computation of doses for large-angle Coulomb scattering of proton pencil beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 7285-7300

  Ciangaru, George ^a   Sahoo, Narayan ^a   Zhu, X Ronald ^a   Sawakuchi, Gabriel O ^a   Gillin, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTABLE PARAMETERS; BRAGG PEAKS; COULOMB SCATTERING; DOSE PROFILE; GAUSSIANS; HIGHER ORDER TERMS; LARGE-ANGLE SCATTERING; MEASURED DATA; MULTIPLE COULOMB SCATTERINGS; NUCLEAR INTERACTION; PENCIL BEAM; PROTON ENERGY; PROTON SCATTERING; RE-DISTRIBUTION; SHALLOW DEPTHS; THREE-TERM;

COULOMB INTERACTIONS; RUTHERFORD BACKSCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY; SCATTERING;

PROTONS;

PROTON; WATER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; WATER;

EID: 71949115791     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/24/003     Document Type: Article

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