Investigation of variance reduction techniques for Monte Carlo photon dose calculation using XVMC.
作者： Iwan Kawrakow , Matthias Fippel
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/8/308
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摘要: … variance reduction (Bielajew and Rogers 1988). This paper deals with some of these techniques to decrease the variance … The associated 10% increase in CPU time can be cancelled …
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