Investigation of various energy deposition kernel refinements for the convolution/superposition method

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Huang, Jessie Y ^a,b   Eklund, David ^c   Childress, Nathan L ^c   Howell, Rebecca M ^a,b   Mirkovic, Dragan ^a,b   Followill, David S ^a,b   Kry, Stephen F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c Mobius Medical Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Convolution superposition; Energy deposition kernel; Heterogeneity correction; Kernel hardening; Kernel scaling

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CHARGED PARTICLES; CONVOLUTION; DEPOSITION; DOSIMETRY; METAL IMPLANTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; TITANIUM;

CLINICAL SITUATIONS; COMMISSIONING PROCESS; CONVOLUTION/SUPERPOSITION; EFFECTIVE ATOMIC NUMBER; EGSNRC MONTE CARLO; ENERGY DEPOSITIONS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; KERNEL SCALING;

RIVERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONVOLUTION SUPERPOSITION METHOD; DENSITY; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY DEPOSITION KERNEL; GEOMETRY; KERNEL METHOD; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON;

ALGORITHMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84890070287     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4831758     Document Type: Article

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