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<Articles JournalTitle="Basic &amp; Clinical Cancer Research">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Basic &amp; Clinical Cancer Research</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>2228-6527</Issn>
      <Volume>16</Volume>
      <Issue>4</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2025</Year>
        <Month>11</Month>
        <Day>08</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Proton beam physical processes for improving cancer therapy using a water phantom</title>
    <FirstPage>196</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>215</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Fatemeh</FirstName>
        <LastName>Namdari</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Physics, Shi.C., Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Seyedeh Nasrin</FirstName>
        <LastName>Hosseinimotlagh</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">faculty member of islamic azad university</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2023</Year>
        <Month>01</Month>
        <Day>18</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2025</Year>
        <Month>08</Month>
        <Day>14</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">The aim of this work is a description of quantitatively and qualitatively physical processes for proton therapy when a proton pencil beam passes through a water phantom. Therefore, at first, we determine the absorbed dose with both Maple programming and Geant4 simulation in the suggested water phantom. Then, we used as CSDA method to calculate the proton range and range straggling. Also with the Highland formula the mean scattering angle is calculated and following it we investigate the inelastic cross-section, the ionization, and excitation by protons in the inner and outer shells as well as charge transfer, stripping, and ionization by neutral hydrogen.&#xA0; Finally, we estimate the probabilities of charge state and stopping cross section and straggling and fragmentation. The height, width, and depth of Bragg's peak are discussed through the investigation of collisions, processing, and random phenomena.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://bccr.tums.ac.ir/index.php/bccrj/article/view/463</web_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
