Dose conversion coefficients for monoenergetic electrons incident on a realistic human eye model with different lens cell populations

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 6919-6934

  Nogueira, P ^a,b   Zankl, M ^b   Schlattl, H ^b   Vaz, P ^a  

^a Technological and Nuclear Institute   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; ANATOMICAL VARIABILITY; CELL POPULATIONS; CONVERSION COEFFICIENTS; DOSE CONVERSION; DOSE ESTIMATES; ELECTRON ENERGIES; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; EYE LENS; EYE MODEL; FLUENCES; GEOMETRICAL MODELS; GERMINATIVE CELLS; HUMAN EYE MODEL; MONOENERGETIC ELECTRONS; MONTE CARLO RADIATION TRANSPORT CODE; PER UNIT; POSTERIOR SUBCAPSULAR CATARACT; RADIATION-INDUCED;

CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON IRRADIATION; IONIZING RADIATION;

ELECTRONS;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON; HUMAN; LENS; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATHOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; STANDARD;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION;

EID: 80054797155     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/21/010     Document Type: Article

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