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

Autor Matthias Würl
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 iun 2016
Matthias Würlpresents two essential steps to implement offline PET monitoring of proton dosedelivery at a clinical facility, namely the setting up of an accurate MonteCarlo model of the clinical beamline and the experimental validation ofpositron emitter production cross-sections. In the first part, the field sizedependence of the dose output is described for scanned proton beams. Both theMonte Carlo and an analytical computational beam model were able to accuratelypredict target dose, while the latter tends to overestimate dose in normaltissue. In the second part, the author presents PET measurements of differentphantom materials, which were activated by the proton beam. The resultsindicate that for an irradiation with a high number of protons for the sake ofgood statistics, dead time losses of the PET scanner may become important andlead to an underestimation of positron-emitter production yields.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783658131678
ISBN-10: 3658131675
Pagini: 88
Ilustrații: XV, 86 p. 30 illus., 10 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Colecția Springer Spektrum
Seria BestMasters

Locul publicării:Wiesbaden, Germany

Cuprins

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

Notă biografică

Matthias Würl wrotehis Master’s Thesis at the chair of Medical Physics at the Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversity Munich. He is now a PhD student at the same department, working ontransmission imaging with laser-accelerated ions.

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Matthias Würlpresents two essential steps to implement offline PET monitoring of proton dosedelivery at a clinical facility, namely the setting up of an accurate MonteCarlo model of the clinical beamline and the experimental validation ofpositron emitter production cross-sections. In the first part, the field sizedependence of the dose output is described for scanned proton beams. Both theMonte Carlo and an analytical computational beam model were able to accuratelypredict target dose, while the latter tends to overestimate dose in normaltissue. In the second part, the author presents PET measurements of differentphantom materials, which were activated by the proton beam. The resultsindicate that for an irradiation with a high number of protons for the sake ofgood statistics, dead time losses of the PET scanner may become important andlead to an underestimation of positron-emitter production yields.
Contents
  • Monte Carlo Modeling of a Clinical Proton Beam
  • Low-Dose Envelope and Field Size Factor
  • PETActivation Studies
Target Groups
  • Researchers and students in the field of medicalphysics with focus on particle therapy
  • Medical physicists at proton therapy facilities
The Author
Matthias Würl wrotehis Master’s Thesis at the chair of Medical Physics at the Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversity Munich. He is now a PhD student at the same department, working ontransmission imaging with laser-accelerated ions.

Caracteristici

Publication in the field of natural sciences