On the feasibility of automatic detection of range deviations from in-beam PET data

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1387-1397

  Helmbrecht, S ^a   Santiago, A ^a,d   Enghardt, W ^a,b   Kuess, P ^c   Fiedler, F ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; AUTOMATIC METHOD; CLINICAL APPLICATION; DATA POOL; DIFFERENT PROCESS; GERMANY; HELMHOLTZ; MEASURED DATA; PET DATA; PRIMARY PARTICLES; REPRODUCIBILITIES; RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL APPROACH; TEST OBJECT; THREE DIMENSIONS; TREATMENT PLANS; TUMOR THERAPY; VISUAL EVALUATION; WATER EQUIVALENT;

ALGORITHMS; HEAVY IONS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAD; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAD; HUMANS; IONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84857597310     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/5/1387     Document Type: Article

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