The Development and Clinical Use of a Beam ON-LINE PET System Mounted on a Rotating Gantry Port in Proton Therapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 277-286

  Nishio, Teiji ^a,b   Miyatake, Aya ^c   Ogino, Takashi ^a   Nakagawa, Keiichi ^b   Saijo, Nagahiro ^a   Esumi, Hiroyasu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beam ON LINE PET system on rotating gantry port (BOLPs RGp); Dose volume delivery guided proton therapy (DGPT); Target nuclear fragment reaction

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; ACTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; BEAM IRRADIATION; CLINICAL USE; DAILY ACTIVITY; DOSE-VOLUME; DOSE-VOLUME DELIVERY GUIDED PROTON THERAPY (DGPT); FIELD OF VIEWS; HEAD AND NECK; NECK TREATMENTS; NUCLEAR FRAGMENTS; PROTON THERAPY; PROTON TREATMENT; TUMOR CELLS;

BRAIN; LIVER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; ROTATION; TUMORS;

PROTON IRRADIATION;

ARTICLE; BEAM ON LINE POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSE VOLUME DELIVERY GUIDED PROTON THERAPY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; MEASUREMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE TUMOR; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION EQUIPMENT; ROTATING GANTRY PORT;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC;

EID: 72049110976     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.05.065     Document Type: Article

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