A dose determination procedure by PET monitoring in proton therapy

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3534-3538

  Aiello, Marco ^a   Attanasi, Francesca ^a   Belcari, Nicola ^a   Rosso, Valeria ^a   Straub, Katrin ^a   Del Guerra, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROTON BEAM THERAPY; PROTON BEAMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

DOSE DELIVERY; ENERGY DEPOSITIONS; HADRON THERAPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); PROTON THERAPY; RESEARCH GROUPS; TREATMENT VERIFICATION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84858636118     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6153663     Document Type: Conference Paper

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