A single-ring OpenPET enabling PET imaging during radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 4705-4718

  Tashima, Hideaki ^a   Yamaya, Taiga ^a   Yoshida, Eiji ^a   Kinouchi, Shoko ^a,b   Watanabe, Mitsuo ^c   Tanaka, Eiichi ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL FIELD OF VIEWS; DEPTH-OF-INTERACTION DETECTORS; DETECTOR BLOCKS; DOSE VERIFICATION; DUAL-RING; GAP REGIONS; IMAGING PROPERTIES; OPEN SPACE; PARTICLE THERAPY; PATIENT BED; PET IMAGING; REAL-TIME TUMOR TRACKING; SOLID ANGLE; UNIFORM RESOLUTION;

DETECTORS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

GEOMETRY;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 84863513180     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/14/4705     Document Type: Article

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