Monitoring of ion beam energy by tracking of secondary ions: First measurements in a patient-like phantom

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1914-1917

  Martisikova, Maria ^a   Jakubek, Jan ^b   Gwosch, Klaus ^c   Hartmann, Bernadette ^a   Telsemeyer, Julia ^a   Pospisil, Stanislav ^b   Jakel, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D silicon tracking detector; beam range; carbon ions; prompt charged particles; radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

BEAM RANGE; CARBON ION BEAMS; CARBON IONS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ION BEAM THERAPIES; TIMEPIX DETECTORS; TRACKING DETECTORS; UNPREDICTABLE CHANGES;

CARBON; DETECTORS; EXPERIMENTS; ION BEAMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; RADIOTHERAPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE;

SECONDARY EMISSION;

EID: 84881564979     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2012.6551443     Document Type: Conference Paper

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