Theory of Heavy Ion Collision Physics in Hadron Therapy

Content: 
Advances in Quantum Chemistry
Page i

Editorial Board
Page ii

Advances in Quantum Chemistry
Page iii

Copyright
Page iv

Preface
Pages xiii-xv

Contributors
Pages xvii-xix

Chapter One - Stochastics of Energy Loss and Biological Effects of Heavy Ions in Radiation Therapy
Pages 1-38
Hans Bichsel

Chapter Two - On the Accuracy of Stopping Power Codes and Ion Ranges Used for Hadron Therapy
Pages 39-61
Helmut Paul

Chapter Three - On the Determination of the Mean Excitation Energy of Water
Pages 63-77
John R. Sabin, Jens Oddershede, Stephan P.A. Sauer

Chapter Four - Molecular Scale Simulation of Ionizing Particles Tracks for Radiobiology and Hadrontherapy Studies
Pages 79-110
Ziad Francis

Chapter Five - Verifying Radiation Treatment in Proton Therapy via PET Imaging of the Induced Positron-Emitters
Pages 111-127
Joanne Beebe-Wang, Paul Vaska, F. Avraham Dilmanian, Stephen G. Peggs, David J. Schlyer

Chapter six - Inelastic Collisions of Energetic Protons in Biological Media
Pages 129-164
Isabel Abril, Rafael Garcia-Molina, Pablo de Vera, Ioanna Kyriakou, Dimitris Emfietzoglou

Chapter Seven - The Dielectric Formalism for Inelastic Processes in High-Energy Ion–Matter Collisions
Pages 165-201
Claudia C. Montanari, Jorge E. Miraglia

Chapter Eight - Single Ionization of Liquid Water by Protons, Alpha Particles, and Carbon Nuclei: Comparative Analysis of the Continuum Distorted Wave Methodologies and Empirical Models
Pages 203-229
Mario A. Bernal-Rodríguez, Jacinto A. Liendo

Chapter Nine - Computation of Distorted Wave Cross Sections for High-Energy Inelastic Collisions of Heavy Ions with Water Molecules
Pages 231-267
Roberto D. Rivarola, Mariel E. Galassi, Pablo D. Fainstein, Christophe Champion

Chapter Ten - The First Born Approximation for Ionization and Charge Transfer in Energetic Collisions of Multiply Charged Ions with Water
Pages 269-313
Christophe Champion, Jocelyn Hanssen, Roberto D. Rivarola

Chapter Eleven - Ion Collisions with Water Molecules: A Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Approach
Pages 315-337
Tom Kirchner, Mitsuko Murakami, Marko Horbatsch, Hans Jürgen Lüdde

Chapter Twelve - Four-Body Theories for Transfer Ionization in Fast Ion-Atom Collisions
Pages 339-362
Dževad Belkić, Ivan Mančev, Nenad Milojević

Chapter Thirteen - Distorted Wave Theories for One- and Two-Electron Capture in Fast Atomic Collisions
Pages 363-405
Volodymyr Yu. Lazur, Mykhaylo V. Khoma

Chapter Fourteen - Mechanistic Repair-Based Padé Linear-Quadratic Model for Cell Response to Radiation Damage
Pages 407-449
Dževad Belkić, Karen Belkić

Index
Pages 451-461