NOREC, a Monte Carlo code for simulating electron tracks in liquid water

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 213-217

  Semenenko, V A ^a   Turner, J E ^b   Borak, T B ^a,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY; LIQUID; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORGANIZATION; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOFTWARE; SOLUTIONS; WATER;

QUERCUS;

EID: 0344303523     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-003-0201-z     Document Type: Article

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