A compton imaging prototype for range verification in particle therapy
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Abstract
During the 2012 AAPM Annual Meeting 33 percent of the delegates considered the range uncertainty in proton therapy as the main obstacle of becoming a mainstream treatment modality. Utilizing prompt gamma emission, a side product of particle tissue interaction opens the possibility of in-beam dose verification, due to the direct correlation between prompt gamma emission and particle dose deposition. Compton imaging has proven to be a technique to measure three dimensional gamma emission profiles ([1], [2]) and opens the possibility of adaptive dose monitoring and treatment correction.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2013 3rd International Conference on Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation, Measurement Methods and their Applications (ANIMMA) |
| Publisher | IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) |
| Pages | 1-2 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| ISBN (print) | 978-1-4799-1046-5 |
| Publication status | Published - 27 Jun 2013 |
| Peer-reviewed | No |
Conference
| Title | 2013 3rd International Conference on Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation, Measurement Methods and their Applications |
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| Abbreviated title | ANIMMA 2013 |
| Conference number | 3 |
| Duration | 23 - 27 June 2013 |
| City | Marseille |
| Country | France |
External IDs
| Scopus | 84894469224 |
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| ORCID | /0000-0001-9023-3606/work/142252751 |
Keywords
Keywords
- Detectors, Imaging, Photonics, Strips, Prototypes, Image reconstruction, Spatial resolution