A Monte Carlo investigation of low-Z target image quality generated in a linear accelerator using Varian's VirtuaLinac

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Parsons, David ^a   Robar, James L ^a   Sawkey, Daren ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

flattening filter free; low Z target; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

CARBON; EMISSION CONTROL; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS;

CLINICAL PHOTON BEAMS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; FLATTENING FILTER FREE; MONTE CARLO CODES; MONTE CARLO MODEL; SPECTRAL DIFFERENCES; SPECTRAL DISTRIBUTION; WEB APPLICATION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; BREMS RADIATION; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; ENERGY; FILTER; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING PHANTOM; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84894359158     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4861818     Document Type: Article

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