Prototype tracking studies for proton CT

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 59-63

  Feldt, Jason ^b   Heimann, Jason ^b   Blumenkrantz, Nate ^b   Lucia, Dominic ^b   Sadrozinski, Hartmut F W ^a,b   Seiden, Abe ^b   Sowerwine, William ^b   Williams, David C ^b   Bashkirov, Vladimir ^c   Schulte, Reinhard ^c   Bruzzi, Mara ^d   Menichelli, David ^d   Scaringella, Monica ^d   Cirrone, G A Pablo ^e   Cuttone, Giacomo ^e   Randazzo, Nunzio ^f   Sipala, Valeria ^f,g   Presti, Domenico Lo ^f,g  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^c LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^e INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL SUD   (Italy)

^f INFN SEZIONE DI CATANIA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR RESOLUTION; MOST LIKELY PATH (MLP); PROTON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SILICON STRIP DETECTORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MOTION PLANNING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PROTON IRRADIATION; RADIATION DETECTORS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 33846606275     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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