Design study of an in situ PET scanner for use in proton beam therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2667-2685

  Surti, S ^a   Zou, W ^a   Daube Witherspoon, M E ^a   McDonough, J ^a   Karp, J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR ACCEPTANCE; CRYSTAL SIZE; CRYSTAL TYPES; DATA ANALYSIS; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; DESIGN STUDIES; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; GEANT4 SIMULATION; GOOD TIMING; HEALTHY TISSUES; HIGH SENSITIVITY; IN-SITU; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; LOW BIAS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PARAMETERIZED; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SIZE; PET DETECTORS; PET IMAGING; PET SCANNER; POSITRON EMITTERS; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS; PROTON BEAM THERAPY; PROTON DOSE; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RANGE ESTIMATES; RING SYSTEMS; SCANNER DESIGNS; SOURCE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THERAPY PLANNING; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIMING RESOLUTIONS; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING; VARIABLE NUMBER;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DATA REDUCTION; DECAY (ORGANIC); DESIGN; ELECTRONS; ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; TISSUE;

SCANNING;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; NEOPLASM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; SCINTISCANNING; TIME;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79954597833     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/9/002     Document Type: Article

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