A PET prototype for in-beam monitoring of proton therapy

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1607-1611

  Vecchio, Sara ^b   Attanasi, Francesca ^b   Belcari, Nicola ^b   Camarda, Manuela ^b   Cirrone, G A Pablo ^d   Cuttone, Giacomo ^d   Del Guerra, Alberto ^a,b   Di Rosa, Francesco ^d   Lanconelli, Nico ^c   Moehrs, Sascha ^b   Rosso, Valeria ^b   Russo, Giorgio ^d  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL SUD   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ACTIVE AREAS; ACTIVITY PROFILES; BEAM DIRECTIONS; BEAM LINES; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; DELIVERED DOSES; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE PROFILES; ELECTRONIC BOARDS; IN-SITU; IN-VIVO; INDUCED ACTIVITIES; ION PATHS; MAXIMUM STATISTICS; MEV PROTONS; OCULAR TUMORS; PET IMAGES; PIXEL DIMENSIONS; PLASTIC PHANTOMS; POSITION SENSITIVE PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PROTON THERAPIES; SCINTILLATING CRYSTALS; SIGNAL MULTIPLEXING; TOMOGRAPH;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 48349138696     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4437306     Document Type: Conference Paper

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