Time-of-flight neutron rejection to improve prompt gamma imaging for proton range verification: A simulation study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 6429-6444

  Biegun, Aleksandra K ^a,f   Seravalli, Enrica ^b   Lopes, Patrícia Cambraia ^a,c,d   Rinaldi, Ilaria ^d,e   Pinto, Marco ^c   Oxley, David C ^f   Dendooven, Peter ^f   Verhaegen, Frank ^b   Parodi, Katia ^d   Crespo, Paulo ^c   Schaart, Dennis R ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LABORATÓRIO DE INSTRUMENTAÇÃO E FÍSICA EXPERIMENTAL DE PARTÍCULAS   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY THRESHOLDS; GAMMA IMAGING; GAMMA PHOTONS; GAMMA SIGNALS; IN-SITU MONITORING; LONGITUDINAL PROFILE; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NEUTRON BACKGROUND; PROMPT GAMMA-RAYS; PROTON CYCLOTRONS; PROTON DOSE; SHIFTING TIME WINDOW; SIMULATION STUDIES; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIME-OF-FLIGHT TECHNIQUES; TIME-RESOLVED;

GAMMA RAYS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUTRONS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHOTONS;

PROTONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; SCINTISCANNING; TIME;

MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRONS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTON THERAPY; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84867280532     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/20/6429     Document Type: Article

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