Calculation of 10 MV x-ray spectra emitted by a medical linear accelerator using the BFGS quasi-Newton method

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 515-523

  Shimozato, T ^a,b   Tabushi, K ^b   Kitoh, S ^c   Shiota, Y ^b   Hirayama, C ^b   Suzuki, S ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

MEDICAL LINEAR ACCELERATORS; NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION; PHOTON SPECTRA; QUASI-NEWTON METHOD;

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

ALUMINUM; WATER;

ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; SPECTRUM; X RAY SPECTROMETRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; X RAY;

ALUMINUM; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WATER; X-RAYS;

EID: 33947718781     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/2/014     Document Type: Article

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