Monte Carlo simulation of the image formation process in portal imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3243-3250

  Bissonnette, Jean Pierre ^a   Munro, P ^b,c   Cunningham, I A ^c,d,e  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image quality; Monte Carlo; Portal imaging; Visual impact

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LENSES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

IMAGE FORMATION PROCESS; MONTE CARLO PROGRAMS; PORTAL IMAGING; RADIOLOGICAL IMAGES; SCATTERED RADIATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VIRTUAL EXPERIMENTS; VISUAL IMPACTS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; CAMERA; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

EID: 0346364981     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1625511     Document Type: Article

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