Published 2001 | Version v1
Computer medium Metadata-only

Photonuclear effects of secondary charge particles produced in tissue during high energy radiotherapy

Creators

  • 1. Instituto de Radioprotecao e Dosimetria (IRD), Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil)

Description

The aim of this work is to use a Monte Carlo method plus the evaporation theory to estimate the relative contribution to total dose imparted to the tissue due to charged particles produced by high energy Bremsstrahlung beams during radiotherapy. (author)

Part of:
Proceedings of the 6. Brazilian congress on medical physics

Additional details

Additional titles

Original title (English)
Anais do 6. Congresso brasileiro de fisica medica

Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Proceedings of the 6. Brazilian congress on medical physics
Imprint Pagination
[262 p.]
Journal Page Range
[4 p.]

Conference

Title
6. Brazilian congress on medical physics
Original Conference Title
6. Congresso brasileiro de fisica medica
Dates
4-6 Oct 2001
Place
Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil)

INIS

Country of Publication
Brazil
Country of Input or Organization
Brazil
INIS RN
34072814
Subject category
S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ALPHA BEAMS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BREMSSTRAHLUNG; CHARGED PARTICLES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON BEAMS; PHOTONUCLEAR REACTIONS; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION
Descriptors DEC
BEAMS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; CALCULATION METHODS; DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; HELIUM 4 BEAMS; ION BEAMS; MEDICINE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; NUCLEON BEAMS; PARTICLE BEAMS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIATIONS; RADIOLOGY; THERAPY

Optional Information

Notes
8 refs., 1 graph Imprint:Published only in CD-Rom;Anais do 6. Congresso brasileiro de fisica medica