A Fourier analysis on the maximum acceptable grid size for discrete proton beam dose calculation

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3508-3518

  Li, Haisen S ^a   Romeijn, H Edwin ^a,b   Dempsey, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Aliasing error; Band limited; Discrete dose calculation; IMPT fluence map optimization; Proton beam therapy; Sampling resolution; Shannon Nyquist sampling theorem

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; ERRORS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PROTON BEAMS; RADIOTHERAPY; SIGNAL SAMPLING;

ALIASING ERROR; BAND-LIMITED; DOSE CALCULATION; MAP OPTIMIZATIONS; NYQUIST SAMPLING THEOREM; SAMPLING RESOLUTION;

PROTON BEAM THERAPY;

ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; PROTON THERAPY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33748309362     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2241996     Document Type: Article

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