History by history statistical estimators in the BEAM code system

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2745-2752

  Walters, B R B ^a   Kawrakow, I ^a   Rogers, D W O ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECYCLING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

INCIDENT PARTICLES; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; PARTICLE RECYCLING; PHASE-SPACE FILES; PHASE-SPACE SOURCE; RECYCLED PARTICLES; STATISTICAL ESTIMATORS; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES;

PHASE SPACE METHODS;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; ENERGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036908431     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1517611     Document Type: Article

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