Spectral reconstruction of high energy photon beams for kernel based dose calculations

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1789-1796

  Hinson, William H ^a   Bourland, J Daniel ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Convolution; Dose kernel; High energy photon spectrum; Transmission measurements

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CONVOLUTION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; TRANSMISSIONS;

BREMSSTRAHLUNG SPECTRUM; DOSE KERNEL; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; HIGH ENERGY PHOTONS; HIGH-ENERGY PHOTON BEAMS; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPECTRAL RECONSTRUCTION; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS;

PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREMS RADIATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION BEAM;

EID: 0036703565     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1494831     Document Type: Article

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