Comments on the primary and scatter dose-spread kernels used for convolution methods

Radiation Physics and Chemistry

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 595-597

  Iwasaki, Akira ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Convolution method; Primary dose spread kernel; Scatter dose spread kernel

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVOLUTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

FIELD SIZES;

DOSIMETRY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; LASER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING;

EID: 0036890918     PISSN: 0969806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-806X(02)00309-2     Document Type: Article

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