Mass Stopping Power and Range of Protons in Biological Human Body Tissues (Ovary, Lung and Breast)

  • Almutairi A
  • Osman K
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Abstract

In this work, the mass stopping power and range of protons in biological human body tissues (ovary, lung and breast) were calculated at the energy ranging from 0.04 MeV to 200 MeV using the MATLAB Program. The data relating to the densities, average atomic number to mass number and excitation energy for the present tissues were collected from ICRU Report 46. The mass stopping power was calculated by the Bethe formula. Moreover, the simple integration (continuous slowing down approximation) method was employed for calculating protons range at the tissues. The results of the mass stopping power versus energy and the range versus energy were presented gra- phically and the empirical formulae for calculating the mass stopping power and the ranges were obtained. The present results for mass stopping powers and ranges were compared with the results obtained by others. Good agreements were found between them, especially at the energy ranging from 3 to 200 MeV.

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Almutairi, A. S., & Osman, K. T. (2022). Mass Stopping Power and Range of Protons in Biological Human Body Tissues (Ovary, Lung and Breast). International Journal of Medical Physics, Clinical Engineering and Radiation Oncology, 11(01), 48–59. https://doi.org/10.4236/ijmpcero.2022.111005

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