Delivery verification using 3D dose reconstruction based on fluorescence measurement in a carbon beam scanning irradiation system

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2235-2242

  Furukawa, Takuji ^a   Saotome, Naoya ^a   Inaniwa, Taku ^a   Sato, Shinji ^a   Noda, Koji ^a   Kanai, Tatsuaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D dose reconstruction; Fluorescent screen; Particle therapy; Pencil beam scanning

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CCD CAMERAS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT SCREENS; ION BEAMS; IRRADIATION; SCANNING;

CARBON ION BEAMS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE RECONSTRUCTION; FLUENCE DISTRIBUTION; FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; PARTICLE THERAPY; PENCIL BEAM; TARGET VOLUMES;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; ENERGY; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; IRRADIATION; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROSCOPY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDITY;

EID: 44349162914     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2911868     Document Type: Article

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