Development of a new multielement detector system for megavoltage photons

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4682, Issue , 2002, Pages 809-818

  Hinderer, Ralf ^a   Kapatoes, Jeffrey M ^a   Keller, Harry ^a   Schmidt, Richard ^a   Jeraj, Robert ^a   Ruchala, Kenneth J ^a   Pearson, David W ^a   Fang, Guang ^a   Olivera, Gustavo H ^a   Mackie, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Megavoltage computed tomography; Megavoltage photon detector; Megavoltage photon imaging; Monte Carlo studies of megavoltage photon detection; MVCT

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CROSSTALK; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; IONIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MEGAVOLTAGE PHOTON IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 18644375516     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.465632     Document Type: Conference Paper

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