Modeling dose distributions from portal dose images using the convolution/superposition method

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1381-1392

  McNutt, Todd R ^a   Mackie, T Rock ^a   Reckwerdt, Paul ^b   Paliwal, Bhudatt R ^a  

^a Depts of Med Phys and Hum Oncol   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

conformal radiotherapy; convolution superposition; exit transit dosimetry; treatment planning; treatment verification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVOLUTION; DEPOSITION; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; CONVOLUTION/SUPERPOSITION; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; SUCCESSIVE ITERATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT VERIFICATION;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0029790894     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597872     Document Type: Article

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