Water-equivalent path length calibration of a prototype proton CT scanner

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2438-2446

  Hurley, R F ^a   Schulte, R W ^b   Bashkirov, V A ^a   Wroe, A J ^b   Ghebremedhin, A ^b   Sadrozinski, H F W ^c   Rykalin, V ^d   Coutrakon, G ^d   Koss, P ^b   Patyal, B ^b  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

calibration; imaging; proton; tomography

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CALORIMETERS; CESIUM IODIDE; CURVE FITTING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PHANTOMS; PROTONS; SCANNING; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER TANKS;

CALIBRATION CURVES; CALIBRATION METHOD; CRYSTAL CALORIMETERS; ENERGY DETECTORS; PROTON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (PCT); SECOND DEGREE POLYNOMIALS; TISSUE-EQUIVALENT MATERIALS; WATER EQUIVALENT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84861612088     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3700173     Document Type: Article

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