First in-beam PET measurement of β+ radioactivity induced by hard photon beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Kluge, T ^a   Mockel D ^a   Pawelke, J ^a   Enghardt, W ^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

CAMERAS; IRRADIATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOACTIVITY;

DOUBLE HEAD POSITRON CAMERA; ENERGY PHOTON PHANTOM IRRADIATION; PRODUCTION RATES; TIME-DEPENDENT ACTIVITY;

PHOTONS;

CARBON 11; OXYGEN 15;

ARTICLE; BETA RADIATION; IRRADIATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHANTOM; PHOTON THERAPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ENERGY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA;

BETA RAYS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; PHOTONS; PILOT PROJECTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 36048953482     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/20/N01     Document Type: Article

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