PoDFluX: A new Monte Carlo ray-tracing model for powder diffraction and fluorescence

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Hansford, Graeme M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; EXECUTION TIME; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; MODEL OUTPUTS; MONTE CARLO; POWDER DIFFRACTION; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; RAY-TRACING; RAY-TRACING MODEL; VARIANCE REDUCTION TECHNIQUES; X RAY FLUORESCENCE; X- RAY DIFFRACTION; X-RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FLUORESCENCE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POWDERS;

DIFFRACTION;

BARIUM SULFATE; CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CHROMIUM DERIVATIVE; SODIUM CARBONATE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ALGORITHMS; BARIUM SULFATE; CARBONATES; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 68949114239     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3160018     Document Type: Article

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