Condensed history Monte Carlo methods for photon transport problems

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1673-1694

  Bhan, Katherine ^a   Spanier, Jerome ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Condensed history models; Monte Carlo methods; Radiative transport equation

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; IONIZING RADIATION; PHOTONS; TISSUE;

CONDENSED HISTORY MODEL; MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; MONTE CARLO'S SIMULATION; MONTECARLO METHODS; PHOTON TRANSPORT; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; RADIATIVE TRANSPORT EQUATION; SCATTERING PHASE-FUNCTION; STUDY METHODS; TRANSPORT PROBLEMS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 34547495007     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.02.012     Document Type: Article

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