Dosimetry of High-Energy Heavy-Ion Beams Using Energy-Dependent Green's Functions

<p>A theoretical description of the transport of high-charge and high-energy (HZE) ion bombardment of biological tissue is developed. The energy-dependent Green’s functions and particle fluxes are obtained for two boundary distributions - the monoenergetic and the Gaussian. Approximate energy-dependent Green’s functions for the collision terms are obtained for computational simplicity. As an application of the energy-dependent Green’s function method, dosimetric quantities, such as dose, dose-equivalent, and average quality factor, for 600A MeV⁵⁶Fe , 517A MeV ⁴⁰Ar, and 625A MeV ²⁰Ne ion beams incident on a water target are obtained and compared with the values obtained from the energy-independent Green’s function method and existing experimental values.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Physics

Year dc:date.available

1994

Author dc:creator

• Chun, Sang Yull

Contributors dc:contributor

• Govind S. Khandelwal
• James L. Cox
• J. Wallace Van Orden

• Ion bombardment
• Radiation
• HZE
• Greene's functions
• Nuclear

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https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/physics_etds/33

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oai:digitalcommons.odu.edu:physics_etds-1033