Comparison between an event-by-event Monte Carlo code, NOREC, and ETRAN for electron scaled point kernels between 20 keV and 1 MeV

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-83

  Cho, Sang Hyun ^a,b   Vassiliev, Oleg N ^a   Horton Jr , John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SLOWING DOWN APPROXIMATION (CSDA); MONO-ENERGETIC ELECTRON; OAK RIDGE ELECTRON TRANSPORT CODE (OREC); SCALED POINT KERNEL;

DOSIMETRY; ELECTRONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY TRANSFER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DOSE;

ELECTRONS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 33847639280     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-006-0086-8     Document Type: Article

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