A GAMOS plug-in for GEANT4 based Monte Carlo simulation of radiation-induced light transport in biological media

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 741-759

  Glaser, Adam K ^a   Kanick, Stephen C ^a   Zhang, Rongxiao ^b   Arce, Pedro ^c   Pogue, Brian W ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

^c CIEMAT   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; TISSUE;

ACCURATE MODELING; BIOLOGICAL MEDIA; BIOMEDICAL OPTICS; DIFFUSION THEORY; EXTERNAL RADIATION; HIGH-ENERGY PARTICLES; MULTI-LAYERED MEDIA; RADIATION-INDUCED;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; GEOMETRY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT TRANSPORT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; RADIATION BEAM; SPECTRUM; TISSUE OPTICS PLUG; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84877089770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.4.000741     Document Type: Article

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