RadSim: A program to simulate individual particle interactions for educational purposes

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Verhaegen, Frank ^a   Palefsky, Steven ^a   DeBlois, François ^a  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA PARTICLES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; MANUAL CONTROL; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; POSITRONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION; GRAPHICAL EVALUATION; KINEMATIC EQUATIONS;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

ALPHA RADIATION; ARTICLE; ATOM; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ELECTRON; KINEMATICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTON; POSITRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; SIMULATION;

EID: 33645552250     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/8/N03     Document Type: Article

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