Nuclear interactions in heavy ion transport and event-based risk models

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 143, Issue 2-4, 2011, Pages 384-390

  Cucinotta, Francis A ^a   Plante, Ianik ^b   Ponomarev, Artem L ^b   Kim, Myung Hee Y ^b  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b USRA Division of Space Life Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY ION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAVY IONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 79952331990     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: 17423406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncq512     Document Type: Article

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