Comparison of particle-tracking features in geant4 and mcnpx codes for applications in mapping of proton range uncertainty

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 2-5

  Bednarz, Bryan ^a,c   Chen, Gty ^a   Paganetti, Harald ^a   Han, Bin ^b   Ding, Aiping ^b   Xu, X George ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Monte carlo; Multiple coulomb scattering; Proton imaging

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); PATIENT TREATMENT; TELESCOPES;

MONTE CARLO CODES; MULTIPLE COULOMB SCATTERINGS; PARTICLE TRACKING; PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; PROTON IMAGING; PROTON INTERACTIONS; RANGE UNCERTAINTY; SCATTERING THEORY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 79960686226     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT11-A12260     Document Type: Conference Paper

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