Monte Carlo computation of the energy deposited by heavy charged particles in soft and hard tissues

UPB Scientific Bulletin, Series A: Applied Mathematics and Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 73-84

  Soltani Nabipour, Jamshid ^a   Cǎta Danil, Gheorghe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Bragg curve; Charged hadrons interactions; Energy deposition; Hadron therapy; Monte Carlo simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887231418     PISSN: 12237027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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