Monte Carlo-based adaptive EPID dose kernel accounting for different field size responses of imagers

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3582-3595

  Wang, Song ^a   Gardner, Joseph K ^a   Gordon, John J ^a   Li, Weidong ^b   Clews, Luke ^c   Greer, Peter B ^d   Siebers, Jeffrey V ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

EPID; IMRT QA; Kernel; Monte Carlo; Portal dosimetry

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; BACKSCATTERING; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DOSIMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; ROBOTICS;

EPID; IMRT QA; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; KERNEL; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; PORTAL DOSIMETRIES; SILICON-BASED ELECTRONICS; SOURCE-TO-DETECTORS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RADIATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; KERNEL METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION FIELD; ROBOTICS; SIMULATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 68149155416     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3158732     Document Type: Article

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