Implementation and initial clinical experience of offline PET/CT-based verification of scanned carbon ion treatment

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 218-226

  Bauer, Julia ^a,b   Unholtz, Daniel ^a,b   Sommerer, Florian ^a,b   Kurz, Christopher ^a,b   Haberer, Thomas ^a,b   Herfarth, Klaus ^a,b   Welzel, Thomas ^b   Combs, Stephanie E ^a,b   Debus, Jürgen ^a,b   Parodi, Katia ^a,b,c  

^a Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Centre   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon ion treatment; Carlo simulations; Monte; Offline; PET; Treatment monitoring

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HEAD TUMOR; HUMAN; ION THERAPY; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; PELVIS TUMOR; PET SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION MONITORING;

CARBON; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEAVY IONS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84879021938     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2013.02.018     Document Type: Article

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