On the feasibility of dose quantification with in-beam PET data in radiotherapy with 12C and proton beams


On the feasibility of dose quantification with in-beam PET data in radiotherapy with 12C and proton beams

Parodi, K.

This thesis has contributed to the achievement of in-beam PET as a promising clinical monitoring technique. In response to a pressing medical demand, this work has provided a tool for quantification of local dose deviations in case of observed discrepancies between the measured and expected PET images. The implemented interactive approach described in chapter 3 is in clinical use since 2001. It provides the radio-oncologist with a valuable feedback which may allow a prompt reaction in the strategy of the therapy prior to the delivery of the successive treatment fraction in case of significant deviations between planned and actually applied dose. ...

Keywords: PET; ion therapy

  • Open Access Logo Wissenschaftlich-Technische Berichte / Forschungszentrum Rossendorf; FZR-415, November 2004
    ISSN: 1437-322X

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