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Fluence correction factors and stopping power ratios for clinical ion beams

Armin LührDepartment of Experimental Clinical Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark;Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, DenmarkCorrespondence[email protected]
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David C. HansenDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
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Nikolai SobolevskyDepartment of Neutron Research, Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Hugo PalmansDivision of Acoustics and Ionising Radiation, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK
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Séverine RossommeCentre for Molecular Imaging and Experimental Radiotherapy, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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Niels BasslerDepartment of Experimental Clinical Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark;Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Pages 797-805 | Received 15 Mar 2011, Accepted 13 Apr 2011, Published online: 18 Jul 2011

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Toke Printz Ringbæk, Uli Weber, Jørgen B. Petersen, Bjarne Thomsen & Niels Bassler. (2014) Monte Carlo simulations of new 2D ripple filters for particle therapy facilities. Acta Oncologica 53:1, pages 40-49.
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David C. Hansen, Armin Lühr, Rochus Herrmann, Nikolai Sobolevsky & Niels Bassler. (2012) Recent improvements in the SHIELD-HIT code. International Journal of Radiation Biology 88:1-2, pages 195-199.
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J Renaud, H Palmans, A Sarfehnia & J Seuntjens. (2020) Absorbed dose calorimetry. Physics in Medicine & Biology 65:5, pages 05TR02.
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A Lourenço, D Shipley, N Wellock, R Thomas, H Bouchard, A Kacperek, F Fracchiolla, S Lorentini, M Schwarz, N MacDougall, G Royle & H Palmans. (2017) Evaluation of the water-equivalence of plastic materials in low- and high-energy clinical proton beams. Physics in Medicine and Biology 62:10, pages 3883-3901.
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A Lourenço, R Thomas, M Homer, H Bouchard, S Rossomme, J Renaud, T Kanai, G Royle & H Palmans. (2017) Fluence correction factor for graphite calorimetry in a clinical high-energy carbon-ion beam. Physics in Medicine and Biology 62:7, pages N134-N146.
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A Lourenço, N Wellock, R Thomas, M Homer, H Bouchard, T Kanai, N MacDougall, G Royle & H Palmans. (2016) Theoretical and experimental characterization of novel water-equivalent plastics in clinical high-energy carbon-ion beams. Physics in Medicine and Biology 61:21, pages 7623-7638.
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Ana Lourenço, Russell Thomas, Hugo Bouchard, Andrzej Kacperek, Vladimir Vondracek, Gary Royle & Hugo Palmans. (2016) Experimental and Monte Carlo studies of fluence corrections for graphite calorimetry in low- and high-energy clinical proton beams. Medical Physics 43:7, pages 4122-4132.
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K Henkner, M Winter, G Echner, B Ackermann, S Brons, J Horn, O Jäkel & C P Karger. (2015) A motorized solid-state phantom for patient-specific dose verification in ion beam radiotherapy. Physics in Medicine and Biology 60:18, pages 7151-7163.
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Marco Marinelli, G. Prestopino, C. Verona, G. Verona-Rinati, M. Ciocca, A. Mirandola, A. Mairani, L. Raffaele & G. Magro. (2015) Dosimetric characterization of a microDiamond detector in clinical scanned carbon ion beams. Medical Physics 42:4, pages 2085-2093.
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Vicki Trier Taasti, Helge Knudsen, Michael H. Holzscheiter, Nikolai Sobolevsky, Bjarne Thomsen & Niels Bassler. (2015) Antiproton annihilation physics in the Monte Carlo particle transport code SHIELD-HIT12A. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 347, pages 65-71.
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Jiajian Shen, Wei Liu, Aman Anand, Joshua B. Stoker, Xiaoning Ding, Mirek Fatyga, Michael G. Herman & Martin Bues. (2015) Impact of range shifter material on proton pencil beam spot characteristics. Medical Physics 42:3, pages 1335-1340.
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Nobuyuki Kanematsu, Yusuke Koba, Risa Ogata & Takeshi Himukai. (2014) Influence of nuclear interactions in polyethylene range compensators for carbon-ion radiotherapy. Medical Physics 41:7, pages 071704.
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N Bassler, D C Hansen, A Lühr, B Thomsen, J B Petersen & N Sobolevsky. (2014) SHIELD-HIT12A - a Monte Carlo particle transport program for ion therapy research. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 489, pages 012004.
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J Toftegaard, A Lühr, N Sobolevsky & N Bassler. (2014) Improvements in the stopping power library libdEdx and release of the web GUI dedx.au.dk. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 489, pages 012003.
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Armin Lühr, Marlen Priegnitz, Fine Fiedler, Nikolai Sobolevsky & Niels Bassler. (2014) Dependence of simulated positron emitter yields in ion beam cancer therapy on modeling nuclear fragmentation. Applied Radiation and Isotopes 83, pages 165-170.
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S Rossomme, H Palmans, D Shipley, R Thomas, N Lee, F Romano, P Cirrone, G Cuttone, D Bertrand & S Vynckier. (2013) Conversion from dose-to-graphite to dose-to-water in an 80 MeV/A carbon ion beam. Physics in Medicine and Biology 58:16, pages 5363-5380.
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H Palmans, L Al-Sulaiti, P Andreo, D Shipley, A Lühr, N Bassler, J Martinkovič, J Dobrovodský, S Rossomme, R A S Thomas & A Kacperek. (2013) Fluence correction factors for graphite calorimetry in a low-energy clinical proton beam: I. Analytical and Monte Carlo simulations. Physics in Medicine and Biology 58:10, pages 3481-3499.
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Nobuyuki Kanematsu, Yusuke Koba & Risa Ogata. (2013) Evaluation of plastic materials for range shifting, range compensation, and solid-phantom dosimetry in carbon-ion radiotherapy. Medical Physics 40:4, pages 041724.
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Armin Lühr, David C Hansen, Ricky Teiwes, Nikolai Sobolevsky, Oliver Jäkel & Niels Bassler. (2012) The impact of modeling nuclear fragmentation on delivered dose and radiobiology in ion therapy. Physics in Medicine and Biology 57:16, pages 5169-5185.
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David C Hansen, Armin Lühr, Nikolai Sobolevsky & Niels Bassler. (2012) Optimizing SHIELD-HIT for carbon ion treatment. Physics in Medicine and Biology 57:8, pages 2393-2409.
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