Molecular coherent scattering data for tissue in photon transport Monte Carlo codes

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 53, Issue 4-5, 2000, Pages 901-906

  Tartari, A ^a   Bonifazzi, C ^a   Fernandez, J E ^b   Bastiano, M ^b   Casnati, E ^a   Baraldi, C ^a   Di Domenico, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coherent Scattering; Diffraction; Monte Carlo; Photon Transport

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SCATTERING; TISSUE; WATER; X RAYS;

MOLECULAR COHERENT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; MONTE CARLO CODES; PHOTON TRANSPORT;

PHOTONS;

CONFERENCE PAPER; GAMMA RADIATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; X RAY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0034670281     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(00)00249-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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