Calculation of portal dose using the convolution/superposition method

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 527-535

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

^a Dept of Med Phys and Hum Oncol ^*

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

Author keywords

convolution and superposition; exit transit dosimetry; image registration; portal imaging

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE REGISTRATION; PHANTOMS;

BEAM CONFIGURATION; CONVOLUTION/SUPERPOSITION; DOSE CONTRIBUTION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; PORTAL IMAGING; PRIMARY ENERGIES; QUANTITATIVE IMAGES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 0029892227     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597810     Document Type: Article

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