Theory of Heavy Ion Collision Physics in Hadron Therapy: Volume 65

ISBN-13: 9780123964557 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 480 str.

Dzevad Belkic

Opis

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. This volume focuses on the theory of heavy ion physics in medicine.

• Presents surveys of current topics in this rapidly developing field
• Features detailed reviews written by leading international researchers
• Focuses on the theory of heavy ion physics in medicine

Spis treści

1. Stochastics of Energy Loss and Biological Effects of Heavy Ions in Radiation Therapy

Hans Bichsel

2. On the Accuracy of Stopping Power Codes and Ion Ranges used for Hadron Therapy

Helmut Paul

3. On the Determination of the Mean Excitation Energy of Water

John R. Sabin, Jens Oddershede and Stephan P.A. Sauer

4. Molecular Scale Simulation of Ionizing Particles for Radio-Biology and Hadron Therapy Studies

Ziad Francis

5. Verifying Radiation Treatment in Proton Therapy via PET Imaging of the Induced Positron Emitters

Joanne Beebe-Wang, Paul Vaska, F. Avraham Dilmanian, Stephen G. Peggs and David J. Schlyer

6. Inelastic Collisions of Energetic Protons in Biological Media

Isabel Abril, Rafael Garcia-Molina, Pablo de Vera, Ioanna Kyriakou and Dimitris Emfietzoglou

7. The Dielectric Formalism for Inelastic Processes in High-Energy Ion-Matter Collisions

Claudia C. Montanari and Jorge E. Miraglia

8. Single Ionization of Liquid Water by Protons, Alpha Particles and Carbon Nuclei: Comparative Analysis of Continuum Distorted Wave Methodologies and Empirical Models

Mario A. Bernal-Rodríguez and Jacinto A. Liendo

9. Computation of Distorted Wave Cross Sections for High-Energy Inelastic Collisions of Heavy Ions with Water Molecules

Roberto D. Rivarola, Mariel E. Galassi, Pablo D. Fainstein and Christophe Champion

10. The First Born Approximation for Ionization and Charge Transfer in Energetic Collisions of Multiply Charged Ions with Water

Christophe Champion, Jocelyn Hanssen and Roberto D. Rivarola

11. Ion Collisions with Water Molecules: A Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Approach

Tom Kirchner, Mitsuko Murakami, Marko Horbatsch and Hans Jürgen Lüdde

12. Four-Body Theories for Transfer Ionization in Fast Ion-Atom Collisions

Dzevad Belkic, Ivan Mancev and Nenad Milojevic

13. Distorted Wave Theories for One- and Two-Electron Capture in Fast Atomic Collisions

Volodymyr Yu. Lazur and Mykhaylo V. Khoma

14. Mechanistic Repair-Based Padé Linear-Quadratic Model for Cell Response to Radiation Damage Dzevad Belkic and Karen Belkic