Slit x-ray beam primary dose profiles determined by analytical transport of Compton recoil electrons

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 923-934

  Van't Veld, A A ^a   Van Luijk, P ^b   Praamstra, F ^a   Van Der Hulst, P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Analytic model; Detector spatial response; Electron transport; Line spread function; Primary dose

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; X RAYS;

ANALYTIC MODELING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LINE SPREAD FUNCTIONS; PRIMARY DOSE; SPATIAL RESPONSE;

X RAY DETECTORS;

ARTICLE; COMPTON EFFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON RADIATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GEOMETRY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 0343183005     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598958     Document Type: Article

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