Enhanced bremsstrahlung spectrum reconstruction from depth-dose gradients

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 3245-3261

  Paniak, L D ^a   Charland, P M ^b  

^a 4 Solutions Inc   (Canada)

^b Grand River Regional Cancer Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLABILITY; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS;

BREMSSTRAHLUNG SPECTRUM; DEPTH-DOSE DATA; GRADIENTS; INVERSE METHODS;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BREMS RADIATION; ERROR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 22244466452     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/14/004     Document Type: Article

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