On the detector arrangement for in-beam PET for hadron therapy monitoring

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2143-2163

  Crespo, Paulo ^a   Shakirin, Georgy ^a   Enghardt, Wolfgang ^a,b  

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

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DETECTORS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SCANNING; TUMORS;

CLOSED-RING DETECTOR; IRRADIATION FIELDS; PET IMAGES; REAL-TREATMENT SITUATIONS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; GAMMA RADIATION; HADRON; HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33645990582     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/9/002     Document Type: Article

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