Evaluation of the Secondary Particle Effect in Inhomogeneous Media for Proton Therapy Using Geant4 Based MC Simulation
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Park, So-Hyun
(Department of Biomedical Engineering, Catholic University of Korea)
Jung, Won-Gyun (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Catholic University of Korea) Rah, Jeong-Eun (Proton Therapy Center, National Cancer Center of Korea) Park, Sung-Yong (Proton Therapy Center, National Cancer Center of Korea) Suh, Tae-Suk (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Catholic University of Korea) |
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