Optimizing SHIELD-HIT for carbon ion treatment

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2393-2409

  Hansen, David C ^a,b   Lühr, Armin ^a,b   Sobolevsky, Nikolai ^c   Bassler, Niels ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON IONS; CROSS SECTION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; ION TREATMENT; MONTE CARLO TRANSPORT CODE; NUCLEAR CROSS SECTIONS; NUCLEAR FRAGMENTATION; PARTICLE THERAPY;

EXPERIMENTS; IONS;

CARBON;

CARBON; NEON; PROTON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOTHERAPY;

CARBON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEON; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84859293996     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/8/2393     Document Type: Article

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