Water and tissue equivalence of a new PRESAGE® formulation for 3D proton beam dosimetry: A Monte Carlo study

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 7071-7079

  Gorjiara, Tina ^a   Kuncic, Zdenka ^a   Doran, Simon ^b   Adamovics, John ^c   Baldock, Clive ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

3D dosimetry; GEANT4; Monte Carlo; proton beam

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROTON BEAMS;

EQUIVALENT THICKNESS; GEANT4; GEOMETRIC ACCURACY; PROTON BEAM DOSIMETRY; SECONDARY ELECTRONS; SECONDARY PARTICLES; SOFTWARE TOOLKITS; TISSUE EQUIVALENCE;

TISSUE;

EID: 84868601637     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4757922     Document Type: Article

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