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So far, in this book, we have been mostly concerned with calculation of macroscopic characteristics of radiation fields, such as dose distributions on a spatial scale on the order of ∼ 1 mm. However, absorbed dose does not always serve as a good predictor of biological effects of radiation, including the outcome of a radiation treatment.
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Vassiliev, O.N. (2017). Microdosimetry. Elements of Stochastic Transport Theory. In: Monte Carlo Methods for Radiation Transport. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44141-2_6
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