CSnrc: Correlated sampling Monte Carlo calculations using EGSnrc

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3425-3435

  Buckley, Lesley A ^a,b   Kawrakow, I ^a   Rogers, D W O ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Correlated sampling; Dosimetry; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS;

CODE OF PRACTICE; CORRECTION FACTORS; CORRELATED SAMPLING; EGSNRC MONTE CARLO; HIGH ENERGY PHOTONS; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; PARTICLE TRACKS; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRON BEAM; MICRODOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; REFERENCE VALUE; VARIANCE;

EID: 11244299745     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1813891     Document Type: Article

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