Skip Navigation


Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on July 26, 2005
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2005 117(4):369-372; doi:10.1093/rpd/nch497
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
117/4/369    most recent
nch497v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (1)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Dang, B.
Right arrow Articles by Wang, J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Dang, B.
Right arrow Articles by Wang, J.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Comparison doses of secondary neutron with the heavy ions in a 75-mev/n heavy ion beam

Bingrong Dang*, Wenjian Li and Jing Wang

Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 509 Nanchang Road, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, China

* Corresponding author: Dangbr{at}impcas.ac.cn

Received September 2, 2004, amended March 9, 2005, accepted April 17, 2005

The angular distributions for neutrons of energy >6 MeV that are induced by 75 MeV/n 12C6+ and 16O8+ ions were measured with the activation method of Al threshold detectors at the radiobiological terminal of HIRFL. The data were obtained by a high-purity Ge(HpGe) detector. The results show that the neutron angular distributions produced by heavy ion beams are strongly peaked in the forward direction and decreased exponentially with angles in experimental area. The experimental conditions for these measurements were similar to those for biological experiments, so the results should be representative of neutrons produced by heavy ions during the biological experiments and tumour therapy. Comparing with the neutron doses produced by the heavy ion beam, the heavy ion dose is the main factor in biological effects and tumour therapy response, so the contribution of neutron dose can be neglected.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.