Towards Offline PET Monitoring at a Cyclotron-Based Proton Therapy Facility - Experiments and Monte Carlo Simulations (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)

Matthias Wurl 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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Spektrum
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	BestMasters
Release date:	June 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Matthias Wurl
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	86
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-3-658-13167-8
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Particle & high-energy physics Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Biophysics
LSN:	3-658-13167-5
Barcode:	9783658131678

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!