Fast, accurate photon beam accelerator modeling using BEAMnrc: A systematic investigation of efficiency enhancing methods and cross-section data

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5451-5466

  Fragoso, Margarida ^a   Kawrakow, Iwan ^b   Faddegon, Bruce A ^c   Solberg, Timothy D ^d   Chetty, Indrin J ^e  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e University of Cape Verde   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross sections; Efficiency; Monte Carlo; Variance reduction techniques

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; EFFICIENCY; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS;

CROSS SECTION DATA; CROSS SECTIONS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; IMPROVING TECHNIQUES; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; SINGLE PROCESSORS; SPECTRAL DISTRIBUTION; VARIANCE REDUCTION TECHNIQUES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

WATER;

ACCURACY; AIR; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREMS RADIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON; ELECTRON ACCELERATOR; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY; VARIANCE;

EID: 72049109137     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3253300     Document Type: Article

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