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40th Annual Meeting of
the American Association of Physicists in Medicine
August 9-13, 1998 San Antonio, Texas

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Wednesday, August 12, 1998 Session Information

Scientific Sessions
Dose Calculations
Wednesday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: Centro

Chair: Hui Helen Liu, Mayo Clinic

Chair: Daniel L. McShan, Univ Michigan Medical Center

10:00 AM
WE-C1-1
Dose Enhancement by a Thin Foil of High-Z Material: a Potential Clinical Application - X. Li*, J. Chu, W. Chen, T. Zusag
10:12 AM
WE-C1-2
Modeling Photon Output Due to Backscattered Radiation from Collimator Jaws Using a Monte Carlo Technique - H. Liu*
10:24 AM
WE-C1-3
Characterization of Phase Space Distributions of Linear Accelerators: Simulation of Angular Distribution Reconstruction using Wavelet Transform - K. Lam*, R. Ten Haken, D. McShan
10:36 AM
WE-C1-4
Accelerator-Specific Photon Phase Space Description and Sampling Techniques in the PEREGRINE Monte Carlo Dose Calculation System - A. Schach von Wittenau*, L. Cox, P. Bergstrom, R. House, W. Chandler, C. Hartmann Siantar, R. Mohan
10:48 AM
WE-C1-5
Trust, but Verify: Comparison of MCNP and BEAM Monte Carlo codes for generation of phase space distributions for a Varian 2100C - J. Siebers*, B. Libby, R. Mohan
11:00 AM
WE-C1-6
Monte Carlo Models for Tomotherapy - M. Glass, Jr.*, T. Mackie, G. Fang
11:12 AM
WE-C1-7
A Study of Equivalent Fields Using Monte Carlo Generated Convolution Kernels - B. McCurdy*, S. Pistorius
11:24 AM
WE-C1-8
Monte Carlo vs Convolution/Superposition - P. Keall*, R. Jeraj
11:36 AM
WE-C1-9
Calculation of Dose Distributions for X-ray Phototherapy of Brain Tumors - A. Mesa*, A. Norman, T. Solberg, J. DeMarco, J. Smathers
11:48 AM
WE-C1-10
The CORVUS Dose Model Revealed - T. Holmes*, A. Bleier, M. Carol, B. Curran, J. DeNisi, R. Hill, A. Kania, R. Lalonde, L. Larson, E. Sternick