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

Seth Kilby; Zhongmin Jin; Ashish Avachat; Bryant Kanies; Nicholas Woolstenhulme; Hyoung K. Lee; Joseph Graham

doi:10.1007/s10967-019-06457-1

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

Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry ◽

10.1007/s10967-019-06457-1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 320 (1) ◽

pp. 37-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Seth Kilby ◽

Zhongmin Jin ◽

Ashish Avachat ◽

Bryant Kanies ◽

Nicholas Woolstenhulme ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Monte Carlo ◽

Variance Reduction ◽

Radiation Transport ◽

Reduction Technique ◽

Transport Modeling ◽

Emission Tomography ◽

Variance Reduction Technique

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

Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry ◽

10.1007/s10967-020-07064-1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 324 (1) ◽

pp. 445-446

Author(s):

Seth Kilby ◽

Zhongmin Jin ◽

Ashish Avachat ◽

Bryant Kanies ◽

Nicolas Woolstenhulme ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Monte Carlo ◽

Variance Reduction ◽

Radiation Transport ◽

Reduction Technique ◽

Transport Modeling ◽

Emission Tomography ◽

Variance Reduction Technique

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Comparison of a semi-analytic variance reduction technique to classical Monte Carlo variance reduction techniques for high aspect ratio pencil beam collimators for emission tomography applications

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment ◽

10.1016/j.nima.2021.165236 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 165236

Author(s):

Seth Kilby ◽

Jack Fletcher ◽

Zhongmin Jin ◽

Ashish Avachat ◽

Devin Imholte ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Monte Carlo ◽

Aspect Ratio ◽

High Aspect Ratio ◽

Variance Reduction ◽

Reduction Technique ◽

Emission Tomography ◽

Pencil Beam ◽

Variance Reduction Techniques ◽

Variance Reduction Technique ◽

Reduction Techniques

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An improved on-the-fly global variance reduction technique by automatically updating weight window values for Monte Carlo shielding calculation

Fusion Engineering and Design ◽

10.1016/j.fusengdes.2019.06.011 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 147 ◽

pp. 111238

Author(s):

Yu Zheng ◽

Yuefeng Qiu ◽

Peng Lu ◽

Yixue Chen ◽

Ulrich Fischer ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Monte Carlo ◽

Variance Reduction ◽

Reduction Technique ◽

Variance Reduction Technique ◽

Weight Window ◽

Global Variance Reduction

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SU-FF-T-277: The Development and Implementation of a New Variance Reduction Technique in Monte Carlo Code PEREGRINE

Medical Physics ◽

10.1118/1.1998006 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 32 (6Part11) ◽

pp. 2014-2014

Author(s):

F Ma ◽

R Pino ◽

S Zasadil ◽

D Sheikh-Bagheri ◽

P Nizin

Keyword(s):

Monte Carlo ◽

Variance Reduction ◽

Reduction Technique ◽

Monte Carlo Code ◽

Variance Reduction Technique

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Compound Variance Reduction Technique of Monte Carlo Simulation Methods for Asian Options Pricing

Journal of Information and Computational Science ◽

10.12733/jics20105530 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 1055-1061

Author(s):

Jing Zhang

Keyword(s):

Monte Carlo Simulation ◽

Monte Carlo ◽

Variance Reduction ◽

Reduction Technique ◽

Options Pricing ◽

Simulation Methods ◽

Asian Options ◽

Variance Reduction Technique

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A variance reduction technique for long-term fatigue analysis of offshore structures using Monte Carlo simulation

Engineering Structures ◽

10.1016/j.engstruct.2016.09.047 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 128 ◽

pp. 283-295 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Ying Min Low

Keyword(s):

Monte Carlo Simulation ◽

Monte Carlo ◽

Variance Reduction ◽

Offshore Structures ◽

Fatigue Analysis ◽

Reduction Technique ◽

Variance Reduction Technique

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Biased Selection of Particle Flight Directions as a Variance Reduction Technique in Monte Carlo Calculations

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology ◽

10.1080/18811248.1977.9730808 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 14 (8) ◽

pp. 603-609

Author(s):

Takumi ASAOKA ◽

Shun-ichi MIYASAKA

Keyword(s):

Monte Carlo ◽

Variance Reduction ◽

Reduction Technique ◽

Monte Carlo Calculations ◽

Variance Reduction Technique ◽

Selection Of

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Fast patient-specific Monte Carlo brachytherapy dose calculations via the correlated sampling variance reduction technique

Medical Physics ◽

10.1118/1.3679018 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 1058-1068 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Andrew Sampson ◽

Yi Le ◽

Jeffrey F. Williamson

Keyword(s):

Monte Carlo ◽

Variance Reduction ◽

Reduction Technique ◽

Patient Specific ◽

Sampling Variance ◽

Dose Calculations ◽

Variance Reduction Technique ◽

Correlated Sampling

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On a New Variance Reduction Technique: Neural Network Biasing - A Study of Two Test Cases with the Monte Carlo Code Tripoli4

Nuclear Technology ◽

10.13182/nt09-a9308 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 168 (3) ◽

pp. 793-798 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Eric Dumonteil

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Monte Carlo ◽

Variance Reduction ◽

Reduction Technique ◽

Test Cases ◽

Monte Carlo Code ◽

Variance Reduction Technique

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Verification of the on-the-fly global variance reduction technique on Monte Carlo global coupled neutron photon shielding calculations

Fusion Engineering and Design ◽

10.1016/j.fusengdes.2021.112565 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 171 ◽

pp. 112565

Author(s):

Yu Zheng ◽

Yuefeng Qiu ◽

Peng Lu ◽

Yixue Chen ◽

Ulrich Fischer ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Monte Carlo ◽

Variance Reduction ◽

Reduction Technique ◽

Variance Reduction Technique ◽

Global Variance Reduction

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