Investigation of the optimal backscatter for an aSi electronic portal imaging device

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1723-1738

  Ko, Lung ^a   Kim, Jong Oh ^a   Siebers, Jeffrey V ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; ATTENUATION; BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SIGNAL THEORY; STRUCTURAL PANELS;

ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICE (EPID); RADIATION BACKSCATTERING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ELECTRONICS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION SCATTERING;

COPPER; ELECTRONS; LEAD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON;

EID: 2542441748     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/9/010     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Briesmeister J F 1997 MCNP - a general Monte Carlo N-Particle transport code, version 4B Report LA-13181 (Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory)
2. Chang J and Ling C C 2003 Using the frame averaging of aS500 EPID for IMRT verification J. Appl. Clin. Med. Phys. 4 287-99
3. El-Mohri Y, Antonuk L E, Yorkston J, Jee K W, Maolinbay M, Lam K L and Siewerdsen J H 1999 Relative dosimetry using active matrix flat-panel imager (AMFPI) technology Med. Phys. 26 1530-41
4. Greer P B and Popescu C C 2003 Dosimetric properties of an amorphous silicon electronic portal imaging device for verification of dynamic intensity modulated radiation therapy Med. Phys. 30 1618-27
5. Keall P J, Siebers J V, Libby B and Mohan R 2003 Determining the incident electron fluence for Monte Carlo-based photon treatment planning using a standard measured data set Med. Phys. 30 574-82
6. McCurdy B M, Luchka K and Pistorius S 2001 Dosimetric investigation and portal dose image prediction using an amorphous silicon electronic portal imaging device Med. Phys. 28 911-24
7. Munro P and Bouius D C 1998 X-ray quantum limited portal imaging using amorphous silicon flat-panel arrays Med. Phys. 25 689-702
8. Nelson W R, Hirayama H and Rogers D W O 1985 The EGS4 code system Report SLAC-265 (Stanford, CA: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
9. Rogers D W, Faddegon B A, Ding G X, Ma C M, We J and Mackie T R 1995 BEAM: a Monte Carlo code to simulate radiotherapy treatment units Med. Phys. 22 503-24
10. Schach von Wittenau A E, Logan C M, Aufderheide M B III and Slone D M 2002 Blurring artifacts in megavoltage radiography with a flat-panel imaging system: comparison of Monte Carlo simulations with measurements Med. Phys. 29 2559-70
11. Siebers J V, Keall P J, Libby B and Mohan R 1999 Comparison of EGS4 and MCNP4b Monte Carlo codes for generation of photon phase space distributions for a Varian 2100C Phys. Med. Biol. 44 3009-26