Towards Offline PET Monitoring at a Cyclotron-Based Proton Therapy Facility Experiments and Monte Carlo Simulations /

• Main Author: Würl, Matthias (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Spektrum, 2016.
• Series: BestMasters
• Subjects: Physics.; Nuclear physics.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.

Matthias 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 p...

Table of Contents:

• Monte Carlo Modeling of a Clinical Proton Beam
• Low-Dose Envelope and Field Size Factor
• PET Activation Studies.