Magnetic shielding investigation for a 6 MV in-line linac within the parallel configuration of a linac-MR system

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 788-797

  Santos, D M ^a   St Aubin, J ^a   Fallone, B G ^a   Steciw, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

electron gun; FEM; linac MR; longitudinal fringe magnetic fields; magnetic shield; parallel configuration; simulations

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON GUNS; ELECTRONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHASE SPACE METHODS; RECOVERY; WAVEGUIDES;

3D FINITE ELEMENT METHOD (FEM); ACTIVE MAGNETIC SHIELDING; HOMOGENEOUS MAGNETIC FIELD; LINAC-MR; LONGITUDINAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELD SOLUTIONS; PARALLEL CONFIGURATION; SIMULATIONS;

MAGNETIC SHIELDING;

EID: 84856951858     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3676692     Document Type: Article

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