GEANT4 transport calculations for neutrons and photons below 15 MeV

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2392-2396

  Garny, Sylvia ^a   Leuthold, Gerhard ^a   Mares, Vladimir ^a   Paretzke, Herwig G ^a   Ruhm, Werner ^a  

^a BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ambient dose equivalent; GEANT4; Low energy neutrons; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT DOSE EQUIVALENT; DIFFERENT GEOMETRY; GEANT4; GEANT4 CODE; LOW ENERGY NEUTRONS; MEDICAL PHYSICS; MONTE CARLO CODES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NEUTRON DOSE; NEUTRON ENERGY; NEUTRON TRANSPORT; NEUTRON TRANSPORT CALCULATIONS; TRANSPORT CALCULATION; VOXEL PHANTOMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; RADIATION PROTECTION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 69549111417     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2023904     Document Type: Conference Paper

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