An approximation of the \(M_2\) closure: application to radiotherapy dose simulation

DOI10.1007/s10915-016-0292-8zbMath1386.82064OpenAlexW2526869102MaRDI QIDQ1704771

Bruno Dubroca, Martin Frank, Stéphane Brull, Graham W. Alldredge, Teddy Pichard

Publication date: 13 March 2018

Published in: Journal of Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10915-016-0292-8

zbMATH Keywords

moment modelsentropy-based closureradiotherapy dose computation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Medical applications (general) (92C50) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Applications of statistical mechanics to specific types of physical systems (82D99) Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08)

Related Items (8)

TheM₂Model for Dose Simulation in Radiation Therapy ⋮ Some recent advances on the method of moments in kinetic theory ⋮ On the Renormalization Maps for the φ -Divergence Moment Closures Applied in Radiative Transfer ⋮ Moment methods for the radiative transfer equation based on \(\varphi\)-divergences ⋮ A moment closure based on a projection on the boundary of the realizability domain: 1D case ⋮ A Numerical Approach for a System of Transport Equations in the Field of Radiotherapy ⋮ Unnamed Item ⋮ A moment closure based on a projection on the boundary of the realizability domain: extension and analysis

Uses Software

• DCUHRE
• Maple
• PENELOPE
• QUADPACK
• minpack

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