The design of a simulated in-line side-coupled 6 MV linear accelerator waveguide

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 466-476

  St Aubin, Joel ^a   Steciw, Stephen ^a,b   Fallone, B G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Linear accelerator; Particle simulation; Waveguide design

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT THEORY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DESIGN; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYBRID SYSTEMS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETRONS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARTICLE BEAM DYNAMICS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT;

ACCELERATING CAVITIES; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; EIGENVALUE SOLVERS; ELECTRON TRAJECTORIES; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; PARTICLE SIMULATIONS; SIDE-COUPLED WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDE DESIGN;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 75749089713     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3276778     Document Type: Article

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