Energy deposition and relative frequency of hits of cylindrical nanovolume in medium irradiated by ions: Monte Carlo simulation of tracks structure

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-13

  Plante, Ianik ^a,b   Cucinotta, Francis A ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B-Y IONS; CYLINDRICAL TARGET; DETERMINISTIC MODELS; DNA DAMAGES; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ENERGY DEPOSITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HEAVY ION RADIOTHERAPY; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NANOVOLUME; RADIAL DISTANCE; RELATIVE FREQUENCIES; SPACE RADIATIONS; SPECIFIC ENERGY; TARGET VOLUMES; TRACK STRUCTURE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAVY IONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; TARGETS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; IONIZING RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE;

MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION, IONIZING;

EID: 77049107729     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-009-0255-7     Document Type: Article

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