Quantitative comparison of suitability of various beams for range monitoring with induced β+ activity in hadron therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1131-1145

  Inaniwa, Taku ^a   Tomitani, Takehiro ^b   Kohno, Toshiyuki ^a   Kanai, Tatsuaki ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CHARGED PARTICLES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GAMMA RAYS; IRRADIATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY;

BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BRAGG PEAK; DOSE DISTRIBUTION; FISHER'S INFORMATION;

DOSIMETRY;

CARBON; CARBON 11; FLUORINE; FLUORINE 18; NEON; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; OXYGEN 15; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); POLYETHYLENE; PROTON; WATER;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HADRON; IRRADIATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; POSITRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; BETA RAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA CAMERAS; HEAVY IONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY;

EID: 16444365304     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/6/007     Document Type: Article

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