Feasibility of using distal endpoints for in-room pet range verification of proton therapy

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3290-3297

  Grogg, Kira ^a   Zhu, Xuping ^a   Min, Chul Hee ^b   Winey, Brian ^a   Bortfeld, Thomas ^a   Paganetti, Harald ^a   Shih, Helen A ^a   El Fakhri, Georges ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Yonsei University Wonju   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Hadron therapy; positron emission tomography (PET); proton beams

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICES; HADRON THERAPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); PROTON THERAPY; RANGE VERIFICATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; THRESHOLD ENERGY; TREATMENT PLANS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTONS;

PROTON BEAMS;

EID: 84885951962     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2013.2278140     Document Type: Article

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