Evaluation of a stochastic reconstruction algorithm for use in Compton camera imaging and beam range verification from secondary gamma emission during proton therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3537-3553

  MacKin, Dennis ^a   Peterson, Steve ^b   Beddar, Sam ^a   Polf, Jerimy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPTON CAMERA; GAMMA EMISSION; IRRADIATED TISSUE; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NORMALIZED MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NUMBER OF ITERATIONS; PARAMETER VALUES; PENCIL BEAM; PROTON RADIOTHERAPY; PROTON THERAPY; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; STATISTICAL NOISE; STOCHASTIC RECONSTRUCTION; TISSUE PHANTOM;

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; GAMMA RAYS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; PROTON IRRADIATION; PROTONS; QUALITY CONTROL; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TISSUE;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

PROTON;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; GAMMA RADIATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE; SCINTISCANNING; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84861401057     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/11/3537     Document Type: Article

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