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Sampling random directions within an elliptical cone

D C Hall1

  • 1Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.

Computer Physics Communications
|August 1, 2017
PubMed
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Keywords:
Monte Carlorandom directionspherical sampling

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