Experimental verification of beam quality in high-contrast imaging with orthogonal bremsstrahlung photon beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2896-2906

  Sarfehnia, Arman ^a   Jabbari, Keyvan ^a   Seuntjens, Jan ^a   Podgorsak, Ervin B ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

High contrast imaging; Low atomic number targets; Megavoltage imaging; Monte Carlo; Orthogonal bremsstrahlung beam; Spectra

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; CARBON; COPPER; ELECTRONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS;

ATOMIC NUMBERS; ATTENUATION MEASUREMENTS; ELECTRON CONTAMINATION; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; MEGAVOLTAGE IMAGING; ORTHOGONAL BREMSSTRAHLUNG BEAM; ORTHOGONAL DIRECTIONS;

ATOMS;

ALUMINUM; CARBON; COPPER;

ARTICLE; BREMS RADIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; EXPERIMENTATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIOTHERAPY; TARGET VARIABLE; VALIDATION PROCESS; IMAGING PHANTOM; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; THERAPEUTIC USE;

ELECTRONS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34347385047     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2745243     Document Type: Article

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