TY  - GEN
AU  - Garcia-Pareja, Salvador
AU  - Lallena, Antonio M.
AU  - Salvat, Francesc
PY  - 2021
DO  - 10.3389/fphy.2021.718873
SN  - 2296-424X
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/10668/24432
T2  - Frontiers in physics
AB  - After a brief description of the essentials of Monte Carlo simulation methods and the definition of simulation efficiency, the rationale for variance-reduction techniques is presented. Popular variance-reduction techniques applicable to Monte Carlo...
LA  - en
PB  - Frontiers media sa
KW  - Monte Carlo simulation
KW  - statistical uncertainties
KW  - variance-reduction methods
KW  - splitting and Russian roulette
KW  - ant colony algorithms
KW  - interaction forcing
KW  - delta scattering
KW  - Ant colony algorithm
KW  - Shielding calculations
KW  - Electron
KW  - Code
KW  - Penelope
KW  - Particle
KW  - Photon
TI  - Variance-Reduction Methods for Monte Carlo Simulation of Radiation Transport
TY  - review
VL  - 9
ER  -