Influence of secondary neutrons induced by proton radiotherapy for cancer patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hashimoto, Takayuki ^a   Isobe, Tomonori ^a   Hashii, Haruko ^a   Kumada, Hiroaki ^a   Tada, Hiroshi ^a   Okumura, Toshiyuki ^a   Tsuboi, Koji ^a   Sakae, Takeji ^a   Aonuma, Kazutaka ^a   Sakurai, Hideyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Monte carlo simulation; Proton radiotherapy; Secondary neutrons; Soft error

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; DEFIBRILLATOR; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASM; NEUTRON; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; SECONDARY NEUTRON; EQUIPMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; RADIATION SCATTERING;

PROTON;

DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS; NEUTRONS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84856142798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-7-10     Document Type: Article

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