Post-therapeutical β+-activity measurements in comparison to simulations towards in-vivo verification of ion beam therapy

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2273-2276

  Unholtz, Daniel ^a   Sommerer, Florian ^a   Bauer, Julia ^a   Van Straaten, Dörte ^b   Haberer, Thomas ^a   Debus, Jürgen ^a   Parodi, Katia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; ION BEAMS; IONS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE;

ACTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; AFFINE TRANSFORMATIONS; CLINICAL WORKFLOW; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; CUSTOMIZED SOFTWARE; ION BEAM THERAPIES; IRRADIATED TISSUE; ISOTOPE DISTRIBUTIONS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

EID: 84858627043     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6153860     Document Type: Conference Paper

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