Azimuthal particle redistribution for the reduction of latent phase-space variance in Monte Carlo simulations

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 4345-4360

  Bush, K ^a   Zavgorodni, S F ^a,b   Beckham, W A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE BEAMS;

AZIMUTHAL PARTICLE; CYLINDRICAL SYMMETRY; PHANTOM; PHASE-SPACE VARIANCE;

PHASE SPACE METHODS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AZIMUTHAL PARTICLE REDISTRIBUTION; GEOMETRY; LATENT PERIOD; LATENT PHASE SPACE VARIANCE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; ROTATION; STATISTICS; VARIANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAVY IONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34547362214     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/14/021     Document Type: Article

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