Efficient x-ray tube simulations

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2683-2690

  Mainegra Hing, Ernesto ^a   Kawrakow, Iwan ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TUBES (COMPONENTS); X RAY TUBES;

EFFICIENCY STUDIES; EGSNRC MONTE CARLO; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SECOND DEGREE POLYNOMIALS; SPLITTING NUMBER; TRACK LENGTHS; X-RAY SOURCES;

X RAYS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIRECTIONAL BREMSSTRAHLUNG SPLITTING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY TUBE;

EID: 33746607672     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2219331     Document Type: Article

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