First proton radiography of an animal patient

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1046-1051

  Schneider, Uwe ^a   Besserer, Jürgen ^a   Pemler, Peter ^a   Dellert, Matthias ^b   Moosburger, Martin ^b   Pedroni, Eros ^c   Kaser Hotz, Barbara ^d  

^a TRIEMLI HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Imaging; Proton radiography; Proton radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RADIOTHERAPY; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

ACQUISITION TIME; CLINICAL CONDITIONS; MEASURED RESIDUALS; PROTON RADIOGRAPHY; PROTON RADIOTHERAPY; QUANTITATIVE IMAGES; RANGE VERIFICATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

PROTON BEAM THERAPY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DOG; ENERGY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; NONHUMAN; NOSE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 2442696540     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1690713     Document Type: Article

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