The most likely path of an energetic charged particle through a uniform medium

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2899-2911

  Williams, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; IONIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ENERGETIC CHARGED PARTICLES; IONIZATION ENERGY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; HADRON; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IONIZATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARTICLE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE CHARGE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; IONS; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 3442885471     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/13/010     Document Type: Article

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