Monte Carlo Methods for Radiation Transport Fundamentals and Advanced Topics /

• Main Author: Vassiliev, Oleg N. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering,
• Subjects: Physics.; Radiology.; Mathematical physics.; Particle acceleration.; Medical physics.; Radiation.; Medical and Radiation Physics.; Diagnostic Radiology.; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation.; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.

This book is a guide to the use of Monte Carlo techniques in radiation transport. This topic is of great interest for medical physicists. Praised as a "gold standard" for accurate radiotherapy dose calculations, Monte Carlo has stimulated a high level of research activity that has produced...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Sampling techniques
• The Boltzmann equation
• Particle trajectories, tallies, variance reduction
• Transport of charged particles
• Microdosimetry. Elements of stochastic transport theory
• Grid based Boltzmann equation solvers
• Appendices.