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

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

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

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 scattering; feasible solution; Cimmino algorithm; electron transport in biological tissue; finite-element approximation of the Boltzmann transport equation for charged particles; Rutherford scattering formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35Q35: PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics

92C50: Medical applications (general)

35R30: Inverse problems for PDEs

65M60: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

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