Regional MLEM reconstruction strategy for PET-based treatment verification in ion beam radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 6979-6995

  Gianoli, Chiara ^a,b   Bauer, Julia ^b   Riboldi, Marco ^a,c   De Bernardi, Elisabetta ^d   Fattori, Giovanni ^a   Baselli, Giuseppe ^a   Debus, Jürgen ^b   Parodi, Katia ^b,e   Baroni, Guido ^a,c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Centro Nazionale Adroterapia Oncologica CNAO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

ion beam therapy; noise robust reconstruction; PET based treatment verification; regional MLEM reconstruction

Indexed keywords

HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; EVALUATION STRATEGIES; ION BEAM THERAPIES; ION-BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; NOISE ROBUST; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; TREATMENT VERIFICATION;

ION BEAMS;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; ION THERAPY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; HEAVY ION RADIOTHERAPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84908689239     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/22/6979     Document Type: Article

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