Refinements of the finite-size pencil beam model of three-dimensional photon dose calculation

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 743-750

  Ostapiak, O Z ^a,b   Zhu, Y ^a,c   Van Dyk, J ^a,d  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^c ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d London Regional Cancer Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

dose calculation; FFT convolution; finite size pencil beam; x ray

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CONVOLUTION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTONS; X RAYS;

CONVOLUTION TECHNIQUES; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; FFT CONVOLUTION; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; PENCIL BEAM; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TREATMENT OPTIMIZATION;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRON BEAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030975065     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597995     Document Type: Article

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