A maximum likelihood proton path formalism for application in proton computed tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4849-4856

  Schulte, R W ^a   Penfold, S N ^b   Tafas, J T ^c   Schubert, K E ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Most likely path formalism; Proton computed tomography; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SILICON DETECTORS;

EFFICIENT RECONSTRUCTION; GAUSSIAN APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL FORMALISM; MOST LIKELY; MULTIPLE COULOMB SCATTERINGS; PROTON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROTON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (PCT); SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 54949089317     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2986139     Document Type: Article

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