Extension and validation of an analytical model for in vivo PET verification of proton therapy - A phantom and clinical study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 5079-5098

  Attanasi, F ^a   Knopf, A ^b   Parodi, K ^c   Paganetti, H ^d   Bortfeld, T ^d   Rosso, V ^a   Guerra, A Del ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; AFTER-TREATMENT; ANALYTICAL MODEL; BOSTON , USA; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE DELIVERY; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ENERGY DEPOSITIONS; ENERGY RANGES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLEXIBLE FRAMEWORK; HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT; IN-VIVO; IRRADIATION FIELDS; MONTE CARLO APPROACH; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; PATIENT REPOSITIONING; PET IMAGES; PET/CT SCANNERS; PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; PLANNING CT; PROTON THERAPY; RESEARCH GROUPS; TOMOGRAPHS; TREATMENT VERIFICATION;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FORECASTING; INVESTMENTS; ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; TISSUE;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; SCINTISCANNING; VALIDATION STUDY;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79961087845     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/16/001     Document Type: Article

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