Characterization of an in-beam PET prototype for proton therapy with different target compositions

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 3 PART 3, 2010, Pages 1563-1569

  Attanasi, Francesca ^a,b   Belcari, Nicola ^a,b   Moehrs, Sascha ^a,b   Rosso, Valeria ^a,b   Vecchio, Sara ^a,b   Cirrone, G A Pablo ^c   Cuttone, Giacomo ^c   Lojacono, Piero ^c   Romano, Francesco ^c   Lanconelli, Nico ^d,e   Del Guerra, Alberto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^c INFNLNS   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dose monitoring; Positron emission tomography; Proton therapy

Indexed keywords

AIR CAVITY; CLINICAL PRACTICES; DOSE DEPOSITION; DOSE MONITORING; DUAL-HEAD; GEOMETRICAL INFORMATIONS; LUTETIUM YTTRIUM ORTHOSILICATE; PET IMAGES; PLASTIC PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPH; PROTON THERAPY; TARGET COMPOSITION; TISSUE TYPES; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ELECTRONS; IMAGE PROCESSING; ISOTOPES; POSITRONS; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; YTTRIUM;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953701340     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2048124     Document Type: Article

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