Elevated LET components in clinical proton beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 6677-6691

  Grassberger, C ^a,b   Paganetti, H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT; CENTRAL AXIS; CLINICAL PROTON BEAMS; ENERGY SPECTRA; ENTRANCE REGION; INELASTIC NUCLEAR INTERACTIONS; INHOMOGENEITIES; LET DISTRIBUTION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PRIMARY CONTRIBUTION; PROTON THERAPY; RADIOBIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SECONDARY PARTICLES; SECONDARY PROTONS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; WATER PHANTOM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROTON BEAMS; SPECTROSCOPY;

PROTONS;

PROTON;

ALPHA RADIATION; ARTICLE; CHORDOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY;

ALPHA PARTICLES; CHORDOMA; HUMANS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 80053592273     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/20/011     Document Type: Article

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