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Selasa, 27 Juli 2010
Energy Transfer
The stochastic quality of the electron track as it deposits energy is not adequately described by the usual mathematical formulations. The Bethe-Bloch stopping power equation (which will be discussed in detail in Chapter 14) describes the process of energy transfer from a slowing down electron as a continuous process. That is to say, the energy is assumed to be deposited in a continuous stream rather than in the discrete and punctate fashion that occurs in the real case. This has come to be known as the continuous slowing down approximation. The Bethe-Bloch approximation, which is suitable for general physics questions, proves to be inadequate to describe the events that ultimately lead to molecular alterations in the medium. For example, if we examine the tracks of two electrons of equal starting kinetic energy and identical starting location, the distribution of events along the track will be different and so will be the physical locations of the tracks. Only for very high linear energy transfer (LET) radiations does the continuous slowing down approximation approach reality.
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