Editorial:
American Association of Physicists in Medicine
Fecha de edición:
2014-01
Cita:
Medical Physics, (2014), 41 (1), 12 p.
ISSN:
0094-2405
DOI:
10.1118/1.4837220
Agradecimientos:
The research was supported by the Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking under Grant Agreement No. 115337, which comprises financial contributions from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) and EFPIA companies’ in kind contribution. This work was also partially funded by the AMIT project (CEN-20101014) from the CDTI-CENIT program, projects TEC2010-21619-C04-01, TEC2011-28972-C02-01, and PI11/00616 from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. A. Sisniega is funded by an FPU grant from the Spanish Ministerio de Educación.
The availability of accurate and simple models for the estimation of x-ray spectra is of great importance for system simulation, optimization, or inclusion of photon energy information into data processing. There is a variety of publicly available tools for esThe availability of accurate and simple models for the estimation of x-ray spectra is of great importance for system simulation, optimization, or inclusion of photon energy information into data processing. There is a variety of publicly available tools for estimation of x-ray spectra in radiology and mammography. However, most of these models cannot be used directly for modeling microfocus x-ray sources due to differences in inherent filtration, energy range and/or anode material. For this reason the authors propose in this work a new model for the simulation of microfocus spectra based on existing models for mammography and radiology, modified to compensate for the effects of inherent filtration and energy range.[+][-]
