Overview
- Covers the foundations of both the radiation transport theory and Monte Carlo on an introductory level
- Focuses on the fundamentals and explains the mathematical foundations and the underlying logic of Monte Carlo algorithms
- Comprehensively covers all the classical as well as recently emerging topics important for medical physics applications
- Presents most of the techniques as step-by-step algorithms, so that the reader will have ready-to-use recipes for a variety of problems
Part of the book series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering (BIOMEDICAL)
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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 thousands of papers within the past few years. The book is designed primarily to address the needs of an academically inclined medical physicist who wishes to learn the technique, as well as experienced users of standard Monte Carlo codes who wish to gain insight into the underlying mathematics of Monte Carlo algorithms. The book focuses on the fundamentals—giving full attention to and explaining the very basic concepts. It also includes advanced topics and covers recent advances such as transport of charged particles in magnetic fields and the grid-based solvers of the Boltzmann equation.
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Book Title: Monte Carlo Methods for Radiation Transport
Book Subtitle: Fundamentals and Advanced Topics
Authors: Oleg N. Vassiliev
Series Title: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44141-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44140-5Published: 26 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82993-7Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44141-2Published: 17 October 2016
Series ISSN: 1618-7210
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5647
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 281
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: 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