Enhanced spectral discrimination through the exploitation of interface effects in photon dose data

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 264-276

  Charland, Paule M ^a,b   Chetty, Indrin J ^a   Paniak, Lori D ^a   Bednarz, Bryan P ^a   Fraass, Benedick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Grand River Regional Cancer Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Build up; Convolution; Dose calculation; Lung; Normalization; Photon spectrum

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CONVOLUTION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; SPECTROSCOPY;

BUILD-UP; DOSE CALCULATION; LUNG; NORMALIZATION; PHOTON SPECTRA;

PHOTONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON; ENERGY; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 1242271379     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1637731     Document Type: Article

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