Consistency test of the electron transport algorithm in the GEANT4 Monte Carlo code

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 681-694

  Poon, Emily ^a   Seuntjens, Jan ^a   Verhaegen, Frank ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FANO CONDITIONS; GEOMETRIC BOUNDARIES; PHOTON BEAMS;

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS;

WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GEOMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARAMETER; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 14644444543     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/4/008     Document Type: Article

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