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ArticleRadiation protection dosimetry2016

Measurement of the stochastic radial dose distribution for a 30-MeV proton beam using a wall-less tissue-equivalent proportional counter.

S Tsuda, T Sato, T Ogawa

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Article in Radiation protection dosimetry, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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S TsudaResearch Group for Radiation Protection, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4, Shirakata-shirane, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan tsuda.shuichi@jaea.go.jp.
T SatoResearch Group for Radiation Protection, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4, Shirakata-shirane, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan.
T OgawaResearch Group for Radiation Protection, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4, Shirakata-shirane, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan.

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Abstract

The frequency distribution of the lineal energy, y, of a 30-MeV proton beam was measured as a function of the radial distance from the beam path, and the dosed mean of y, y¯(D), was obtained to investigate the radial dependence of y¯(D). A wall-less tissue-equivalent proportional counter, in a cylindrical volume with simulated diameters of 0.36, 0.72 and 1.44 µm was used for the measurement of y distributions, yf(y). The measured values of yf(y) summed in the radial direction agreed fairly well with the corresponding data taken from the microdosimetric calculations using the PHITS code. The y¯(D) value of the 30-MeV proton beam presented its smallest value at r = 0.0 and gradually increased with radial distance, and the y¯(D) values of heavy ions such as iron showed rapid decrease with radial distance. This experimental result demonstrated that the stochastic deposited energy distribution of high-energy protons in the microscopic region is rather constant in the core as well as in the penumbra region of the track structure.

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Computer SimulationHeavy IonsLinear Energy TransferPhantoms, ImagingProtonsHumansRadiation DosageRadiation MonitoringProtons

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PMID25956785
PMCPMC4884884

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