Monte Carlo PET camera modelling for proton range evaluation in proton therapy

Claire Van Ngoc Ty,Ludovic De Marzi,Sébastien Jan,Loïc Lestand,R. Ferrand,Claude Comtat,Regine Trebossen

Monte Carlo PET camera modelling for proton range evaluation in proton therapy

2011

Claire Van Ngoc Ty
Ludovic De Marzi
Sébastien Jan
Loïc Lestand
R. Ferrand
Claude Comtat
Regine Trebossen

Proton therapy is a conformal method for dose delivery in sensitive regions. Offline PET monitoring has been proposed as proton irradiation produces positron emitters such as 11 C and 15 O [1].

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Dosimetry
Positron emission tomography
Medical physics
Proton
Monte Carlo method
Radiation therapy
Proton therapy
Physics
Positron
Nuclear medicine
Irradiation
positron emitters
Computational physics

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