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A look inside NIST’s work to optimize cancer treatment and radiation dosimetry
In an article just published by the Taking Measure blog of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Stephen Russek—who leads the Imaging Physics Project in the Magnetic Imaging Group at NIST and codirects the MRI Biomarker Measurement Service—describes his team’s work using phantom stand-ins for human tissue.
Alain Hébert
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 154 | Number 2 | October 2006 | Pages 134-173
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE06-A2623
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The occurrence of superconvergence in various first-order spherical harmonics approximations of the neutral particle transport equation is being investigated. Superconvergence refers to the added accuracy gained in evaluating the solution of the transport equation at optimally chosen base points of the finite element trial functions. It has been observed that this phenomenon is happening when primal and dual discretizations in space and angle lead to the same numerical result, a property also referred as primal-dual agreement. A systematic search is presented for primal-dual agreement on one-dimensional slab, tube, and spherical geometries and on Cartesian two-dimensional geometries based on complete and simplified Pn approximations. Primal-dual agreement was successfully obtained in all Cartesian geometries but not in tube and spherical geometries, due to the angular redistribution term.