Wide-swath SAR imagery obtained by the RADARSAT ScanSAR mode can suffer from radiometric artifacts. These artifacts arise from improper application of Range Dependent Gain Corrections (RDGCs), mainly due to insufficient knowledge of the satellite’s roll angle. Specifically, roll angle estimation errors as small as 0.1 degrees can cause noticeable gain errors of 1 dB or more. Beam-stitching tech...

Background: Radiosurgery is a focal brain irradiation technique that delivers, usually in a single session, high dose of ionizing radiation. The presence of lateral electronic disequilibrium and steep dose gradients in small fields demands special attention to the selection of a suitable detector with respect to its size, composition and response. Materials and Methods : Small circular fields w...

The cone-beam approach for image reconstruction attracts an increasing attention in various applications, especially medical imaging. Previously, the traditional practical cone-beam reconstruction method, the Feldkamp algorithm, was generalized into the case of spiral/helical scanning loci with equispatial cone-beam projection data. In this paper, we formulated the generalized Feldkamp algorith...

In this memo we present a method for deconvolving the primary beam response from interferometric images of astronomical sources. The measured primary beam may be time variable, non axi-symmetric and different at each station in the interferometer array. The method is a simple extrapolation of existing software which subtracts a model of the sky brightness distribution from uv data. After subtra...

The LEP Beam Orbit Measurement system (BOM) allows for the acquisition of the beam position at each Beam Position Monitor (BPM) for over 1000 consecutive turns. By synchronizing the acquisition with a kick given to the beam, we can investigate the behavior of the beam under different conditions. In particular, starting from the data of one BPM, we can apply a simple mathematical manipulation to...

ntroduction:  monte  carlo  simulation  is  the  most  accurate  method  of  simulating  radiation  transport  and  predicting doses at different points of interest in radiotherapy. a great advantage of the monte carlo method  compared  to  the  deterministic  methods  is  the  ability  to  deal  accurately  with  any  complex  geometry.  its  disadvantage is the extremely long computing time r...

AbstractIntroduction Silicone gel breast implants are used for breast reconstruction post mastectomy. In the event of cancer recurrence, the radiation oncologists are forced to irradiate through the prosthesis device. Due to prosthesis higher atomic number dose perturbations occur during treatment. This study determined the influence of silicone gel thickness on the photon beam distribution. Ma...