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Technical note: Defining cyclotron based clinical scanning proton machines in a FLUKA Monte Carlo system
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Purpose Cyclotron-based pencil beam scanning (PBS) proton machines represent nowadays the majority and most affordable choice for proton therapy facilities, however their representation in Monte Carlo (MC) codes is more complex than passively scattered proton system or synchrotron based PBS machines. This is because degraders are used to decrease the energy from the cyclotron maximum energy to the desired energy, resulting in a unique spot size, divergence and energy spread d... Expand abstract
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Medical Research Council
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Cancer Research UK
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- American Association of Physicists in Medicine Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Medical Physics Journal website
- Volume:
- 45
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 963–970
- Publication date:
- 2017-12-22
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-11-21
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2473-4209
- ISSN:
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0094-2405
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- pubs:797494
- Deposit date:
- 2017-11-27
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- Fiorini et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Medical Physics published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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