EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL PHYSICS
An Official Journal of the
Associazione Italiana di Fisica in Medicina (AIFM) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Physik (DGMP) Latvian Medical Engineering and Physics Society (LMEPS) Nederlandse Vereniging voor Klinische Fysica (NVKF) Société Française de Physique Médicale (SFPM) South African Medical Physics Society (SAMPS) European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (EFOMP)
VOL. XVII · SUPPLEMENT 1 · 2001
Proceedings of the 1 International Workshop on Space Radiation Research and 11th Annual NASA Space Radiation Health Investigators’ Workshop
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Arona (Italy), May 27-31, 2000 Editors: Roberto Cirio, Francis A. Cucinotta, Marco Durante
http://www.physicamedica.com
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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL PHYSICS An Official Journal of the
Associazione Italiana di Fisica in Medicina (AIFM) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Physik (DGMP) Latvian Medical Engineering and Physics Society (LMEPS) Nederlandse Vereniging voor Klinische Fysica (NVKF) Société Française de Physique Médicale (SFPM) South African Medical Physics Society (SAMPS) European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (EFOMP)
Editor in chief Alberto Del Guerra Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Fisica Piazza Torricelli 2, I-56126 Pisa, Italy Fax: +39-050-48277 E_mail: PHYSMED @ PI.INFN.IT Editorial board Bernard Aubert, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex, France Alun Beddoe, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK Reno E. Beekman, Department of Radiotherapy, Arnhem, The Netherlands (official representative of the NVKF) Marco Bini, IROE-CNR, Firenze, Italy Claudio Birattari, Dipartimento di Fisica, Milano, Italy Gianni Borasi, Arcispedale S. M. Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy Thomas Bortfeld, Deutsches Krebsforschungzentrum, Heidelberg, Germany Anders Brahme, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden Georges Charpak, CERN, Geneve, Switzerland Rinaldo Cubeddu, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Yury Dekhtyar, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia (official representative of the LMEPS) Nicholas J. F. Dodd, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK Andreas R. Formiconi, Dipartimento di Fisiopatologia Clinica, Firenze, Italy Giancarlo Gialanella, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Napoli, Italy Martino Grandolfo, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy Edward J. Hoffman, UCLA - Dept. of Pharmacology and Radiology, Los Angeles, USA Pieter Inia, KCL, Leeuwarten, The Netherlands (official representative of the EFOMP) Willi Kalender, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany Glenn Knoll, Santa Rosa, CA, USA M. G. Lötter, University of Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa (official representative of the SAMPS) Orhan Nalcioglu, Health Sciences Research Imaging Center, College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Suzanne Naudy, Centre Georges François Leclerc, Dijon, France (official representative of the SFPM) Andrzej Niemierko, Massachussetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA Fridtjof Nüsslin, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany (official representative of the DGMP) Ida Ortalli, Università degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy Angelo Piermattei, Istituto di Fisica, Università Cattolica, Roma, Italy Corrado Ratto, Dipartimento di Fisica, Genova, Italy Gian Luca Romani, Università G. D’Annunzio, Chieti, Italy Franco Rustichelli, Università di Ancona, Ancona, Italy Perry Sprawls, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA, USA Tiziano Tirabassi, FISBAT - CNR, Bologna, Italy Lebrecht von Klitzing, Klin. - Experim. Forschungseinrichtung, Lübeck, Germany Steve Webb, The Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom Yuri Zanevsky, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia
Direttore responsabile: Alberto Del Guerra
Autorizzazione del Tribunale di Pisa n. 1 del 27.1.2000
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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL PHYSICS
An Official Journal of the
Associazione Italiana di Fisica in Medicina (AIFM) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Physik (DGMP) Latvian Medical Engineering and Physics Society (LMEPS) Nederlandse Vereniging voor Klinische Fysica (NVKF) Société Française de Physique Médicale (SFPM) South African Medical Physics Society (SAMPS) European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (EFOMP)
VOL. XVII · SUPPLEMENT 1 · 2001
Proceedings of the 1 International Workshop on Space Radiation Research and 11th Annual NASA Space Radiation Health Investigators’ Workshop
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Arona (Italy), May 27-31, 2000 Editors: Roberto Cirio, Francis A. Cucinotta, Marco Durante
http://www.physicamedica.com
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