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Wright officially sworn in for third term at the NRC
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently announced that David Wright, after being nominated by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate, was ceremonially sworn in as NRC chair on September 8.
This swearing in comes more than a month after Wright began his third term on the commission; he began leading as chair July 31. His term will conclude on June 30, 2030.
B. Juste, R. Miró, G. Verdú, S. Díez, J. M. Campayo
Nuclear Technology | Volume 175 | Number 1 | July 2011 | Pages 175-181
Technical Paper | Special Issue on the 16th Biennial Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division / Radiation Transport and Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A12287
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Megavoltage sources are commonly used in radiotherapy treatments, and the determination of the spectral distribution of a photon beam is extremely important for exact dosimetry and for the calculation of therapeutic dose distributions. Since direct measurements of the spectrum are very difficult, we present a technique to accurately calculate the bremsstrahlung spectra based on a numerical reconstruction upon central-axis depth dose data measured in a water tank using inverse methods.The basic idea of this technique is that the measured depth dose curve can be expressed as a weighted superposition of monoenergetic depth dose curves. While traditional approaches directly use the measured depth dose data, we show the improvement of using the gradient of these data for reconstruction. The inverse problem in terms of gradients is shown to be markedly less ill-conditioned than the usual inverse problem. In each case, a Tikhonov regularization is introduced to minimize the effects of noise due to measurement and computation. We illustrate this theory to calculate a 6-MeV photon beam from an Elekta Precise radiotherapy unit utilizing the gradient of depth dose measurements in a water tank.