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A comparative study on dispersed doses during photon and proton radiation therapy in pediatric applications

The Monte Carlo method was employed to simulate realistic treatment situations for photon and proton radiation therapy for a set of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) pediatric phantoms for 15, 10, 5 and 1-year olds as well as newborns. Complete radiotherapy situations were simulated using the pre...

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Autores principales: Shahmohammadi Beni, Mehrdad, Krstic, Dragana, Nikezic, Dragoslav, Yu, Kwan Ngok
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7946309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33690664
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248300