Distributions of secondary particles in proton and carbon-ion therapy: A comparison between GATE/Geant4 and FLUKA Monte Carlo codes

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2879-2899

  Robert, C ^a   Dedes, G ^b   Battistoni, G ^c   Bohlen T T ^d   Buvat, I ^a   Cerutti, F ^d   Chin, M P W ^d   Ferrari, A ^d   Gueth, P ^e,f   Kurz, C ^g   Lestand, L ^h   Mairani, A ⁱ   Montarou, G ^h   Nicolini, R ^c   Ortega, P G ^d,j   Parodi, K ^g   Prezado, Y ^a   Sala, P R ^c   Sarrut, D ^e,f   Testa, E ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^f CENTRE LÉON BÉRARD   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

ⁱ National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR AND ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; ANNIHILATION PHOTONS; HOMOGENEOUS TARGETS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; NUCLEAR FRAGMENTATION; SECONDARY PARTICLES; TREATMENT MONITORING; TREATMENT VERIFICATION;

ION BEAMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUTRONS; PRODUCTION; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS;

CARBON;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; ION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON; RADIATION DOSE; TIME;

HEAVY ION RADIOTHERAPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRONS; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84876461641     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/9/2879     Document Type: Article

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