First full-beam PET acquisitions in proton therapy with a modular dual-head dedicated system

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-60

  Sportelli, G ^a,b   Belcari, N ^a,b   Camarlinghi, N ^a,b   Cirrone, G A P ^c   Cuttone, G ^c   Ferretti, S ^a,b   Kraan, A ^a,b   Ortuno J E ^d,e   Romano, F ^c   Santos, A ^d,e   Straub, K ^a,b   Tramontana, A ^c,f   Guerra, A Del ^a,b   Rosso, V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI CATANIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; DEDICATED SYSTEMS; IN-BEAM POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHIES; INDIRECT METHODS; POSITRON EMITTERS; RANGE MEASUREMENTS;

DETECTORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PATIENT TREATMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS; PROTON BEAMS; SCINTILLATION;

IRRADIATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTON THERAPY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTON THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84890692894     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/1/43     Document Type: Article

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