An in-beam PET system for monitoring ion-beam therapy: Test on phantoms using clinical 62 MeV protons

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Camarlinghi, N ^a   Sportelli, G ^a   Battistoni, G ^b   Belcari, N ^a   Cecchetti, M ^a   Cirrone, G A P ^c   Cuttone, G ^c   Ferretti, S ^a   Kraan, A ^a   Retico, A ^a   Romano, F ^c   Sala, P ^b   Straub, K ^a   Tramontana, A ^c   Guerra, A Del ^a   Rosso, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL SUD   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gamma camera, SPECT, PET PET CT, coronary CT angiography (CTA); Instrumentation for hadron therapy; Medical image reconstruction methods and algorithms, computer aided diagnosis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; CYCLOTRONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IONS; IRRADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTON BEAMS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

CORONARY CT ANGIOGRAPHIES; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; HADRON THERAPY; NUCLEAR INTERACTION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SPATIAL CORRELATIONS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

EID: 84926308795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/9/04/C04005     Document Type: Article

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