Poster — Thur Eve — 54: Discrete Point Spread Functions for Electronic Portal Imaging Devices

EPID images are related to the fluence by a (possibly position‐dependent) Point Spread Function (PSF), or kernel. So far, work concerning finding the PSF for a certain EPID has relied on continuous representations. Since the EPID image itself corresponds to a discrete pixel grid, an interesting problem is to find a discrete PSF and do so based only on measurements, without resorting to Monte Carlo simulations. The present work concerns a method for finding such a discrete kernel for the simple case when the kernel is translation‐ and rotation‐invariant. The method relies on minimizing the difference, in a least‐squares sense, between the true acquired image and the image obtained with the calculated kernel. The method was tested using a simulated fluence and EPID image corresponding to a uniform rectangular field. The EPID image was generated by convolving the fluence with a known PSF. The developed algorithm was then tested by comparing the PSF shape produced by the algorithm (based on the image and fluence) with the actual PSF shape used to construct the EPID image. The two were found to match perfectly. A second test was performed by introducing a random error, uniformly distributed in the (−10%, +10%) interval, into the fluence used as input for the algorithm and then reconstructing the EPID image using the calculated PSF. The difference between the “true” EPID image and the reconstructed one was found to be smaller than 0.1% for the simulated field that was studied.