Performance evaluation of an OpenPET detector for heavy Ion therapy under actual in-beam condition

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3380-3382

  Nishikido, Fumihiko ^a   Mitsuhashi, Takayuki ^b   Inadama, Naoko ^a   Inaniwa, Taku ^a   Satoh, Shinji ^a   Tashima, Hideaki ^a   Yoshida, Eiji ^a   Murayama, Hideo ^a   Yamaya, Taiga ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM CONDITIONS; CARBON BEAMS; CARBON IONS; COINCIDENCE DETECTORS; CRYSTAL ARRAYS; CRYSTAL IDENTIFICATION; DETECTOR PERFORMANCE; FRAGMENT IONS; HEAVY ION MEDICAL ACCELERATOR IN CHIBA; HEAVY-ION THERAPY; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PET DETECTORS; PRIMARY CARBON; TREATMENT CONDITIONS; WATER PHANTOM;

EXPERIMENTS; GAMMA RAYS; HEAVY IONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY;

DETECTORS;

EID: 79960340099     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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