Range shift and dose perturbation with high-density materials in proton beam therapy

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

Volumn 269, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 2685-2692

  Nichiporov, D ^a   Moskvin, V ^a,b   Fanelli, L ^a   Das, I J ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose perturbation; Proton beam; Range shift

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ATOMIC NUMBERS; CLINICAL SITUATIONS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY DATA; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE PERTURBATION; HIGH-DENSITY MATERIALS; IMPLANTED MATERIALS; ION CHAMBER; PARALLEL PLATES; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PRIMARY PARTICLES; PROTON BEAM THERAPY; RANGE SHIFT; SHIFT-AND; WATER PHANTOM;

ATOMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; TOMOGRAPHY;

MATERIALS;

EID: 80053370391     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2011.07.109     Document Type: Article

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