Toward proton computed tomography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 3-9

  Sadrozinski, Hartmut F W ^a   Bashkirov, Vladimir ^b   Keeney, Brian ^a   Johnson, Leah R ^a   Peggs, Stephen G ^c   Ross, Gabe ^a   Satogata, Todd ^c   Schulte, Reinhard W M ^b   Seiden, Abraham ^a   Shanazi, Kabiz ^b   Williams, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Proton radiation effects; Tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIOTHERAPY; X RAYS;

PROTON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROTON RADIATION EFFECTS; PROTON THERAPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 2342561807     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.823044     Document Type: Article

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