A "HOWFARLESS" option to increase efficiency of homogeneous phantom calculations with DOSXYZnrc

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3794-3807

  Walters, B R B ^a   Kawrakow, I ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS;

ALGORITHM SPEED; BEAM ENERGIES; BOUNDARY CROSSING; CHARGED PARTICLE TRANSPORT; EFFICIENCY GAIN; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; PARTICLE SOURCE; PHOTON SPLITTING;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTRON BEAM; ENERGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SIMULATION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

EID: 34748871956     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2776258     Document Type: Article

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