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Deposition of energy

The

energy deposit

, , is the energy deposited in a single

interaction,

i

,

where

is the energy of the incident ionizing particle (excluding

rest energy),

is the sum of the energies of all charged and

uncharged ionizing particles leaving the interaction (excluding rest

energy), and

Q

is the change in rest energies of the nucleus and

of all elementary particles involved in the interaction (ICRU 85,

2011)

= − +