Review of photon interaction cross section data in the medical and biological context

JH Hubbell - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
The probability of a photon (x-ray, gamma-ray, bremsstrahlung, etc) of a given energy E
undergoing absorption or scattering when traversing a layer of material Z can be expressed …

Evaluation of calculated and measured electron inelastic mean free paths near solid surfaces

CJ Powell, A Jablonski - Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference …, 1999 - pubs.aip.org
An analysis is given of the consistency of calculated and measured electron inelastic mean
free paths (IMFPs) near solid surfaces for electron energies between 50 and 10 4 eV, the …

[PDF][PDF] PENELOPE-2014: A code system for Monte Carlo simulation of electron and photon transport

D Bank - 2015 - oecd-nea.org
The computer code system penelope (version 2014) performs Monte Carlo simulation of
coupled electron-photon transport in arbitrary materials for a wide energy range, from a few …

FLYCHK: Generalized population kinetics and spectral model for rapid spectroscopic analysis for all elements

HK Chung, MH Chen, WL Morgan, Y Ralchenko… - High energy density …, 2005 - Elsevier
FLYCHK is a straightforward, rapid tool to provide ionization and population distributions of
plasmas in zero dimension with accuracy sufficient for most initial estimates and in many …

EPDL97: the evaluated photo data library97 version

DE Cullen, JH Hubbell, L Kissel - 1997 - osti.gov
The Evaluated Photon Data Library, 1997 version (EPLD97), is designed for use in photon
transport calculations at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This library includes …

Robust calculation of effective atomic numbers: The Auto‐Zeff software

ML Taylor, RL Smith, F Dossing, RD Franich - Medical physics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The most appropriate method of evaluating the effective atomic number
necessitates consideration of energy‐dependent behavior. Previously, this required quite …

The Guelph PIXE software package II

JA Maxwell, WJ Teesdale, JL Campbell - Nuclear Instruments and Methods …, 1995 - Elsevier
Modifications and improvements made to the software package GUPIX in the period since it
was first described in 1989 are reported. The code now handles thin, intermediate, thick and …

Calculation of photon mass energy-transfer and mass energy-absorption coefficients

SM Seltzer - Radiation research, 1993 - meridian.allenpress.com
Calculations of mass energy-transfer and mass energy-absorption coefficients for photon
energies from 1 keV to 100 MeV have been developed, based on a re-examination of the …

Detailed tabulation of atomic form factors, photoelectric absorption and scattering cross section, and mass attenuation coefficients in the vicinity of absorption edges in …

CT Chantler - Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 2000 - pubs.aip.org
Reliable knowledge of the complex x-ray form factor [Re (f) and f ″] and the photoelectric
attenuation coefficient (σ PE) is required for crystallography, medical diagnosis, radiation …

Photoionization of atoms using synchrotron radiation

V Schmidt - Reports on Progress in Physics, 1992 - iopscience.iop.org
A comprehensive review is given on photoionization of rare gas atoms using
monochromatized synchrotron radiation. Emphasis is put upon the general experimental …