Comparison of MCNP4C and EGSnrc Monte Carlo codes in depth-dose calculation of low energy clinical electron beams

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 4519-4524

  Jabbari, N ^a   Hashemi Malayeri, B ^a   Farajollahi, A R ^b   Kazemnejad, A ^a   Shafaei, A ^b   Jabbari, S ^b  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR DETECTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

DEPTH-DOSE CURVES; ENERGY-INDEXING ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRY VOXELS; MONTE CARLO CODES;

ELECTRON BEAMS;

EID: 34547466654     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/40/15/023     Document Type: Article

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