Automated evaluation of setup errors in carbon ion therapy using PET: Feasibility study

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Kuess, Peter ^a,b   Helmbrecht, Stephan ^c   Fiedler, Fine ^d   Birkfellner, Wolfgang ^a,b   Enghardt, Wolfgang ^c,d   Hopfgartner, Johannes ^a,b   Georg, Dietmar ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MICROELECTRONICS   (Austria)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

in vivo dosimetry; Inbeam PET; Pearson's correlation coefficient; PT PET; TRiP98

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; AUTOMATION; BRAIN; CARBON; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION METHODS; DOSIMETRY; ERRORS; IONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; AUTOMATED EVALUATION; IN-BEAM PETS; IN-VIVO; PEARSON'S CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); TRIP98; VERIFICATION TECHNIQUES;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLADDER; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; ION THERAPY; LUNG METASTASIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE RADIATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM; THORAX WALL; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEM; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; RADIOTHERAPY; SCINTISCANNING;

AUTOMATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEAVY ION RADIOTHERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY SETUP ERRORS;

EID: 84890073614     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4829595     Document Type: Article

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