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Evaluation of highly ionizing components in high-energy nucleon radiation fields
J W Wilson1, L W Townsend, F Khan
1NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23665.
Health Physics
|November 1, 1989
Abstract:
The data and models for nuclear fragment recoil distributions produced by high-energy nuclear events in tissue are reviewed. Results for linear energy transfer distributions in soft tissue are derived, and a simple model is developed for use in radiation studies and risk estimates.