introduction: radioiodine therapy is an effective method for treating thyroid cancer carcinoma, but it has some affects on normal tissues, hence dosimetry of vital organs are important to weigh the risks and benefits of this method. the aim of this study is to measure the absorbed doses of important organs by mcnp (monte carlo n particle) simulation and comparing the results of different method...

In this article we discuss the multilevel Monte Carlo method for stochastic differential equations driven by jump-diffusion processes. We show that for a reasonable jump intensity the multilevel Monte Carlo method for jump-diffusions reduces the computational complexity compared to the standard Monte Carlo method significantly for a given mean square accuracy. Carrying out numerical experiments...

The details of doing a Monte Carlo direct lighting calculation are presented. For direct lighting from multiple luminaires, a method of sending one shadow ray per viewing ray is presented, and it is argued that this is preferable for scenes with many luminaires. Some issues of the design of probability densities on unions of luminaire surfaces are discussed.

A Hybrid Monte Carlo method (HMC) method is proposed in this article for estimating the system reliability of a stochastic network without needing to know all of the minimal pathsets/cutsets (MPs/MCs) in advance. The analysis indicates that the proposed method is efficient when compared to the crude Monte Carlo method (CMC).

We study optimal stochastic (or Monte Carlo) quadrature formulas for convex functions. While nonadaptive Monte Carlo methods are not better than deterministic methods we prove that adaptive Monte Carlo methods are much better. Abstract. We study optimal stochastic (or Monte Carlo) quadrature formulas for convex functions. While nonadaptive Monte Carlo methods are not better than deter-ministic ...

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This paper describes a method for the Monte Carlo simulation of two correlated random variables. The author analyses linear combinations of stochastically independent random variables that are equally distributed over the interval (0; 1) (\random numbers") and also examines their distribution. If a suitable matrix of coeecients is chosen, the subsequent transformation results in random variable...

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