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A source biasing and variance reduction technique for Monte Carlo radiation transport modeling of emission tomography problems

Kilby et al., 2019

Document ID
2602102907770975046
Author
Kilby S
Jin Z
Avachat A
Kanies B
Woolstenhulme N
Lee H
Graham J
Publication year
Publication venue
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry

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A numerical radiation transport methodology for predicting gamma emission tomographs was developed utilizing the deterministic fuel burn-up software, ORIGEN, in the SCALE code package as a source definition input for Monte Carlo N Particle Transport ver. 6.1 to simulate …
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