A comparison of Monte Carlo and analytic first scatter dose spread arrays

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 751-759

  McGary, J E ^a,c   Boyer, A L ^a,d   Mackie, T R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Convolution calculation; Kernels; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FORWARD SCATTERING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTIC MODELING; COMPTON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY DEPOSITIONS; KERNELS; SCATTER POINTS; SCATTERED POINTS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032941482     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598583     Document Type: Article

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