The impact of uncertainties in the CT conversion algorithm when predicting proton beam ranges in patients from dose and PET-activity distributions

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 7557-7571

  España, Samuel ^a   Paganetti, Harald ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; BIOLOGICAL DECAY; CALIBRATION METHOD; CONVERSION ALGORITHM; CROSS SECTION; CT IMAGE; DOSE CALCULATION; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; HEAD AND NECK; HOUNSFIELD UNITS; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; MOVING TARGETS; PARAMETERS RELATIONSHIP; PATIENT ANATOMY; PET IMAGES; PET IMAGING; POSITRON EMITTERS; PROTON DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIATION THERAPY;

ALGORITHMS; BINS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

PROTON;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; UNCERTAINTY;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 78650045640     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/24/011     Document Type: Article

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