First in-beam PET imaging with LSO/APD-array detectors

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1904-1908

  Crespo, Paulo ^a   Kapusta, Maciej ^b   Pawelke, Jörg ^a   Moszyński, Marek ^b   Enghardt, Wolfgang ^a  

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

^b SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

APD; Ion therapy; LSO; PET; Proton therapy

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; AVALANCHE DIODES; CARBON; DOPING (ADDITIVES); IRRADIATION; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TESTING; TUMORS;

ION THERAPY; ION TUMOR TREATMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; PROTON THERAPY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 11844276611     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/nssmic.2003.1352251     Document Type: Conference Paper

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