Improved modeling of multiple scattering in the Voxel Monte Carlo model

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 505-517

  Kawrakow, Iwan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

dose calculation; electron beam; Monte Carlo simulations; Voxel Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MULTIPLE SCATTERING;

ATOMIC ELECTRON; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; MONTE CARLO MODEL; MULTIPLE ELECTRON SCATTERING; PATH LENGTH CORRECTIONS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FAST ELECTRON THERAPY; GEOMETRY; IONIZATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030934371     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597933     Document Type: Article

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