In vivo verification of proton beam path by using post-treatment PET/CT imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4136-4146

  Hsi, Wen C ^a   Indelicato, Daniel J ^a   Vargas, Carlos ^b   Duvvuri, Srividya ^a   Li, Zuofeng ^a   Palta, Jatinder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Boca Radiation Oncology Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Positron emission tomography; Prostate cancer; Proton beam

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; ELECTRONS; PATIENT TREATMENT; POSITRONS; PROTON BEAMS; STATISTICS; UROLOGY;

ANTERIOR POSTERIORS; IMMOBILIZATION DEVICES; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; POSITION CORRECTION; PROSTATE CANCERS; STANDARD DEVIATION; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

PROTON;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GAS; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PATIENT INFORMATION; PELVIC GIRDLE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTON RADIATION; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TAXONOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING; X RAY FILM;

ALGORITHMS; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; GASES; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION; OXYGEN RADIOISOTOPES; PELVIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM; ROTATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69549095923     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3193677     Document Type: Article

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