Derivation of the distribution of extrafocal radiation for head scatter factor calculation

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 351-359

  Zhu, X R ^a   Gillin, M T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS;

FILTERED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHM; FOURIER-BESSEL TRANSFORMS; HIGH-ENERGY PHOTON BEAMS; LINE SPREAD FUNCTIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL (1D) PROJECTIONS; RADIATION DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY RECONSTRUCTION; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

RADIATION;

SCATTER FACTOR;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMPIRICISM; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SCATTERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 14644441653     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1844131     Document Type: Article

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