Using electron beam radiation to simulate the dose distribution for whole body solar particle event proton exposure

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 715-721

  Cengel, Keith A ^a   Diffenderfer, Eric S ^a   Avery, Stephen ^a   Kennedy, Ann R ^a   McDonough, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RADIATION SICKNESS; BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; BODY DOSE; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRON BEAM RADIATION; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; INTERNAL ORGANS; MEGAVOLTAGE; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NOVEL CONCEPT; PROTON RADIATIONS; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SMALL MAMMALS; SOLAR PARTICLE EVENTS; SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUES; TOTAL DOSE; WHOLE BODY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON OPTICS; MAMMALS; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SOLAR RADIATION; SOLAR SYSTEM;

PROTONS;

MAMMALIA; MUS; MUSTELA; SUIDAE;

COBALT; PROTON; WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MOUSE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION RESPONSE; SOLAR ENERGY; SWINE; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; MICE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; RADIATION MONITORING; SOFTWARE; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SWINE; WATER; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 78649325300     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-010-0315-z     Document Type: Article

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