The Potential of In-Beam Positron-Emission-Tomography for Proton Therapy Monitoring: First Phantom Experiments

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1193-1196

  Parodi, Katia ^a   Enghardt, Wolfgang ^a   Haberer, Thomas ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

In beam PET; Proton therapy monitoring

Indexed keywords

CARBON; IONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTONS; TUMORS;

PROTON THERAPY MONITORING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0142210158     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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