Proton radiography for clinical applications

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 612, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 571-575

  Talamonti, C ^a,b,c   Reggioli, V ^a   Bruzzi, M ^a,b   Bucciolini, M ^a,b,c   Civinini, C ^b   Marrazzo, L ^c   Menichelli, D ^a,b   Pallotta, S ^a,b,c   Randazzo, N ^d   Sipala, V ^d,e   Cirrone, G A P ^f   Petterson, M ^g   Blumenkrantz, N ^g   Feldt, J ^g   Heimann, J ^g   Lucia, D ^g   Seiden, A ^g   Williams, D C ^g   Sadrozinski, H F W ^g   Bashkirov, V ^h   Schulte, R ^h   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^c CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI CATANIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^f INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL SUD   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^h LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; Particle calorimetry; Position sensitive particle detectors; Proton beams; Proton computed tomography; Proton radiation therapy; Proton radiography

Indexed keywords

POSITION SENSITIVE; POSITION SENSITIVE PARTICLE DETECTORS; PROTON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROTON RADIATION THERAPY; PROTON RADIOGRAPHY;

CALORIMETRY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; GAS DETECTORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PLASMAS; PROTON BEAMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; REPAIR; SYNCHROTRONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

PROTONS;

EID: 73849140668     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.08.040     Document Type: Article

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