The effects of Doppler broadening and detector resolution on the performance of three-stage Compton cameras

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Compton camera; detector; prompt gamma; proton therapy; range verification

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; CAMERAS; DETECTORS; DOPPLER EFFECT; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTON BEAM THERAPY; PROTON BEAMS; SPECTROSCOPY; Z TRANSFORMS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

CADMIUM ZINC TELLURIDES; CHARACTERISTIC ENERGY; COMPTON CAMERA; HIGH PURITY GERMANIUMS; POINT OF CLOSEST APPROACHES; PROMPT GAMMAS; PROTON THERAPY; RANGE VERIFICATIONS;

GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS;

GERMANIUM;

ARTICLE; CAMERA; DOPPLER BROADENING; DOPPLER DEVICE; ENERGY; IMAGE QUALITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON THERAPY; TARGET ORGAN; EQUIPMENT; GAMMA CAMERA; SAFETY;

GAMMA CAMERAS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTON THERAPY; SAFETY;

EID: 84872009039     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4767756     Document Type: Article

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