Investigation of variance reduction techniques for Monte Carlo photon dose calculation using XVMC

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2163-2183

  Kawrakow, Iwan ^a   Fippel, Matthias ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033862407     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/8/308     Document Type: Article

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