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Depth-LET and depth-dose (Bragg) curves for a 79.7 MeV monoenergetic 20 cm × 20 cm scanned proton beam. The LET increases slowly up to about one cm before the Bragg peak and steeply at points beyond the peak. Reproduced from Guan et al. [1]
