Detailed Monte Carlo investigation of a proton computed tomography system

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 2873-2875

  Cuttone, G ^a   Cirrone, G A P ^a   Candiano, G ^a   Di Rosa, F ^a   Russo, Giorgio ^a   Randazzo, N ^b   Sipala, V ^b   Lo Nigro, S ^b   Lo Presti, D ^b   Feldt, J ^c   Heimann, J ^c   Sadrozinski, H F W ^c   Seiden, A ^c   Williams, D C ^c   Bashkirov, V ^d   Schulte, R ^d   Bruzzi, M ^e   Menichelli, D ^e   Scaringella, M ^e  

^a INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL SUD   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI CATANIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^d LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROTONS; QUALITY CONTROL; TOMOGRAPHY;

ELECTRON DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; MULTIPLE COULOMB SCATTERING; PROTON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SYSTEM;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 33846620225     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596931     Document Type: Conference Paper

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2. D. C. Williams, "The most likely path of an energetic charged particle through a uniform medium," Phys. Med. Biol., vol.49, 2004.
3. S. Agostinelli et al., "GEANT4 - A simulation toolkit," Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A., vol. 506, no. 3, 2003