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OverviewMatthias Würl presents two essential steps to implement offline PET monitoring of proton dose delivery at a clinical facility, namely the setting up of an accurate Monte Carlo model of the clinical beamline and the experimental validation of positron emitter production cross-sections. In the first part, the field size dependence of the dose output is described for scanned proton beams. Both the Monte Carlo and an analytical computational beam model were able to accurately predict target dose, while the latter tends to overestimate dose in normal tissue. In the second part, the author presents PET measurements of different phantom materials, which were activated by the proton beam. The results indicate that for an irradiation with a high number of protons for the sake of good statistics, dead time losses of the PET scanner may become important and lead to an underestimation of positron-emitter production yields. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Matthias WürlPublisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Imprint: Springer Spektrum Edition: 1st ed. 2016 Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 1.457kg ISBN: 9783658131678ISBN 10: 3658131675 Pages: 86 Publication Date: 03 June 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsMonte Carlo Modeling of a Clinical Proton Beam.- Low-Dose Envelope and Field Size Factor.- PET Activation Studies.ReviewsAuthor InformationMatthias Würl wrote his Master’s Thesis at the chair of Medical Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich. He is now a PhD student at the same department, working on transmission imaging with laser-accelerated ions. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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