A dose determination procedure by PET monitoring in proton therapy: Monte carlo validation

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3298-3304

  Aiello, Marco ^a,b   Attanasi, Francesca ^a,b   Belcari, Nicola ^a,b   Rosso, Valeria ^a,b   Straub, Katrin ^a,b   Del Guerra, Alberto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadron therapy; inverse problems; Positron Emission Tomography

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ENERGY DEPOSITIONS; HADRON THERAPY; INHOMOGENEOUS PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); TREATMENT VERIFICATION; UNFOLDING PROCEDURES;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTON BEAMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84885949360     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2013.2266734     Document Type: Article

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