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Theory of heavy ion physics in medicine /
Advances in Quantum Chemistry presents surveys of current topics in this rapidly developing field that has emerged at the cross section of the historically established areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology. It features detailed reviews written by leading international researchers. Th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Elsevier,
2013.
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| Colección: | Advances in quantum chemistry ;
65. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Half Title; Editorial Board; Advances in QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Chapter One Stochastics of Energy Loss and Biological Effects of Heavy Ions in Radiation Therapy; 1. Introduction; 2. Energy loss at macroscopic level; 2.1 Continuous transport of particles through matter: Classical approach; 2.2 Convolutions for range straggling; 2.3 Straggling in thin segments; 2.4 Monte Carlo methods; 3. Bragg functions; 3.1 Nuclear interactions; 3.2 Practical details for protons; 3.3 Practical details for C-ions; 4. Energy loss and deposition at microscopic levels
- 4.1 Energy loss4.2 Energy deposition; 4.3 Energy deposition in microscopic volumes; 5. Stochastics of energy loss in cells; 5.1 General features; 5.2 MC simulation of stochastics at the Bragg peak; 5.2.1 Simulation of random number nj of ions traversing cell j; 5.2.2 Energy deposition z in cells; 6. Bio-effects; 7. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter Two On the Accuracy of Stopping Power Codes and Ion Ranges Used for Hadron Therapy; 1. Introduction; 2. Tables and programs; 3. Liquid water as a target; 3.1 Stopping power of water for hydrogen ions
- 3.2 Range measurements for water, and mean ionization energy4. Other target substances and statistical comparisons; 4.1 Statistical comparisons for H and He ions; 4.2 Application to therapy using H ions; 4.3 Statistical comparisons for carbon ions; 5. Conclusions; 6. List of acronyms; References; Chapter Three On the Determination of the Mean Excitation Energy of Water; 1. Introduction; 2. Some basic theory; 3. Theoretical determination of I0; 4. Experimental determination of I0; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References
- Chapter Four Molecular Scale Simulation of Ionizing Particles Tracks for Radiobiology and Hadrontherapy Studies1. Introduction; 2. Detailed step by step track structure codes; 2.1 Monte-Carlo codes; 2.2 Collision processes: cross sections; 2.3 Sub excitation electrons and the chemical phase; 3. Radiation microdosimetry analysis; 3.1 Theoretical and experimental microdosimetry; 3.2 Ions RBE estimation; 4. DNA damage estimation; 4.1 Track structure detailed approach; 4.2 Stewart and Semenenko MCDS method; 4.3 Garty statistical approach; 4.4 DBSCAN clustering estimation; 5. Conclusion
- AcknowledgmentsReferences; Chapter Five Verifying Radiation Treatment in Proton Therapy via PET Imaging of the Induced Positron-Emitters; 1. Introduction; 2. Positron emitter production; 3. Nuclear reaction cross sections; 4. Monte Carlo simulations; 5. Results; 6. Discussion and conclusions; ACKNOWLEDGMENTs; References; Chapter six Inelastic Collisions of Energetic Protons in Biological Media; 1. Introduction; 2. Dielectric formalism for inelastic scattering; 2.1 Projectile description: electronic charge density; 2.2 Target description: electronic excitation spectrum