A deconvolution approach for PET-based dose reconstruction in proton radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 7601-7619

  Remmele, Steffen ^a,b   Hesser, Jürgen ^a   Paganetti, Harald ^b   Bortfeld, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION APPROACH; DECONVOLUTION APPROACH; DECONVOLUTION METHOD; DELAY TIME; DOSE RECONSTRUCTION; DOSE VERIFICATION; ESTIMATION METHODS; FILTER FUNCTION; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; ILL-POSED INVERSE PROBLEM; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; PET IMAGES; PET SCANNER; POSITRON EMITTERS; PROTON RADIOTHERAPY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; REGULARIZATION TECHNIQUE; SIMULATED RESULTS; STABLE SOLUTIONS;

CONVOLUTION; ELECTRONS; ESTIMATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; IRRADIATION; POSITRONS; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; SCINTISCANNING;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 81355154093     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/23/017     Document Type: Article

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