A comparison of MCNP4C electron transport with ITS 30 and experiment at incident energies between 100 keV and 20 MeV: Influence of voxel size, substeps and energy indexing algorithm

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1459-1484

  Schaart, Dennis R ^a   Jansen, Jan Th M ^a   Zoetelief, Johannes ^a   de Leege, Piet F A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS;

MEDICAL PHYSICS;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

WATER;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BETA RADIATION; BIOPHYSICS; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION ENERGY; VALIDATION PROCESS; ELECTRON; METHODOLOGY; RADIOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOMETRY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0037035394     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/9/303     Document Type: Article

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