Experimental determination of the convolution kernel for the study of the spatial response of a detector

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 202-207

  Garcia Vicente F ^a   Delgado, J M ^b   Peraza, C ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

^b Sanatorio San Francisco de Asis   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Kernel; Penumbra

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; DECONVOLUTION; DENSITOMETERS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; X RAYS;

CONVOLUTION INTEGRALS; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; GAUSSIAN CONVOLUTION; IRRADIATION CONDITIONS; KERNEL; PENUMBRA; SPATIAL CONVOLUTION;

X RAY DETECTORS;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DENSITOMETRY; DOSIMETRY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION PHYSICS;

EID: 0031886274     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598182     Document Type: Article

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