Dose-volume delivery guided proton therapy using beam on-line PET system

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4190-4197

  Nishio, Teiji ^a   Ogino, Takashi ^a   Nomura, Kazuhiro ^b   Uchida, Hiroshi ^c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beam on line PET system (BOLPs); Dose volume delivery guided proton therapy (DGPT); Target nuclear fragment reaction

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS; PROTON BEAMS; PROTON IRRADIATION;

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; NUCLEAR FRAGMENTS; PAIR ANNIHILATIONS; PET SYSTEMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); PROTON BEAM ENERGY; PROTON THERAPY;

PROTON BEAM THERAPY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GAMMA RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PET THERAPY; POSITRON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; PROTON THERAPY;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 33750557453     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2361079     Document Type: Article

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