Full in-beam PET measurements of 62 MeV protons onto a PMMA target

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 718, Issue , 2013, Pages 151-153

  Sportelli, G ^a,b   Straub, K ^a,b   Aiello, M ^a,b   Attanasi, F ^a,b   Belcari, N ^a,b   Camarlinghi, N ^a,b   Cirrone, G A P ^c   Cuttone, G ^c   Ferretti, S ^a,b   Marino, N ^a,b   Nicolosi, D ^c   Romano, F ^c,d   Rosso, V ^a,b   Del Guerra, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI CATANIA   (Italy)

^d MUSEO STORICO DELLA FISICA E CENTRO STUDI E RICERCHE ENRICO FERMI   (Italy)

Author keywords

In beam monitoring; PET; Proton therapy

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ION BEAMS; IRRADIATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; BEAM MONITORING; ION BEAM THERAPIES; NUCLEAR INTERACTION; PHOTON DISCRIMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); PROTON THERAPY; THERAPEUTIC IRRADIATION;

PROTON BEAM THERAPY;

EID: 84887817599     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2012.08.100     Document Type: Article

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