Development of a fast and feasible spectrum modeling technique for flattening filter free beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Cho, Woong ^a,b   Bush, Karl ^a   Mok, Ed ^a   Xing, Lei ^a   Suh, Tae Suk ^b  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

beam modeling; flattening filter free beam; optimization; photon spectrum; TrueBeam

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; COST FUNCTIONS; PHOTONS;

BEAM MODEL; CONVOLUTION/SUPERPOSITION; FIRST ORDER DERIVATIVES; FLATTENING FILTER FREE; PHOTON SPECTRA; RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCES; TRUEBEAM;

OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FILTER; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRUM; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FILTRATION; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FILTRATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84876170272     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4797469     Document Type: Article

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