A finite-element model of electron transport in radiation therapy and a related inverse problem

DOI10.1088/0266-5611/15/5/316zbMath0936.35138OpenAlexW1976805075MaRDI QIDQ4719159

L. M. Heikkinen, P. Kolmonen, Marko Vauhkonen, Jouko Tervo, Jari P. Kaipio

Publication date: 4 January 2000

Published in: Inverse Problems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0266-5611/15/5/316

zbMATH Keywords

Coulomb scatteringfeasible solutionCimmino algorithmelectron transport in biological tissuefinite-element approximation of the Boltzmann transport equation for charged particlesRutherford scattering formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Medical applications (general) (92C50) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60)

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