A filtering approach based on Gaussian-powerlaw convolutions for local PET verification of proton radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1991-2009

  Parodi, Katia ^a   Bortfeld, Thomas ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTON BEAMS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

FUNCTION APPROXIMATION; GAUSSIAN-POWERLAW CONVOLUTIONS; PET IMAGE; PET SIGNAL;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ERROR; FILTRATION; GAUSSIAN POWERLAW CONVOLUTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FILTRATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; STATISTICS;

EID: 33645541395     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/8/003     Document Type: Article

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