Using statistical measures for automated comparison of in-beam PET data

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 5874-5881

  Kuess, Peter ^a   Birkfellner, Wolfgang ^a,b   Enghardt, Wolfgang ^c,d   Helmbrecht, Stephan ^c   Fiedler, Fine ^d   Georg, Dietmar ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MICROELECTRONICS   (Austria)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

in beam PET; particle therapy monitoring; Pearsons correlation coefficient

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; ION BEAMS; TESTING;

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; IN-BEAM PETS; PARTICLE THERAPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNIQUES; WILCOXON RANK SUM TEST;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84867322572     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4749962     Document Type: Article

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