AMOS - An effective tool for adjoint Monte Carlo photon transport

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 251, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 326-332

  Gabler, Dorothea ^a   Henniger, Jürgen ^a   Reichelt, Uwe ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adjoint; Air over ground; Monte Carlo; Photon transport; Radiation transport; Transport equation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTOELECTRICITY;

PHOTON TRANSPORT; RADIATION TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT EQUATION;

PHOTONS;

EID: 33749346969     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2006.07.005     Document Type: Article

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