Design of a proton computed tomography system for applications in ...

Proton computed tomography (pCT) has the potential to improve the accuracy of dose calculations for proton treatment planning, and will also be useful for ...

Design of a Proton Computed Tomography System for Applications ...

A design study was performed to define the optimal approach to a. pCT system based on specifications for applications in proton therapy. Conceptual and detailed ...

Conceptual Design of a Proton Computed Tomography System for ...

The design specifications of a pCT scanner for applications in proton therapy are presented in Table I. The protons used for imaging must have sufficient energy ...

(PDF) Conceptual design of a proton computed tomography system ...

We report initial results of a feasibility study of Proton Computed Tomography and Proton Transmission Radiography for applications in proton therapy treatment ...

Design of a proton computed tomography system for applications in ...

Design of a proton computed tomography system for applications in proton radiation therapy. Reinhard Schulte, Vladimir Bashkirov, Tianfang Li, Jerome Z ...

Conceptual design of a proton computed tomography system for ...

The design specifications of a pCT scanner for applications in proton therapy are presented in Table I. The protons used for imaging must have sufficient energy ...

Conceptual design of a proton computed tomography system for ...

A design study was performed to define the optimal approach to a pCT system based on specifications for applications in proton therapy. Conceptual and detailed ...

Conceptual design of a proton computed tomography system for ...

Conceptual and detailed design of a pCT system is presented; the system consists of a silicon-based particle tracking system and a crystal calorimeter to ...

Development of proton computed tomography detectors for ...

In this paper, we describe the successive pCT scanners designed and built by our group with the goal to support particle therapy treatment planning and image ...

A proton Computed Tomography system for medical applications

Proton Computed Tomography (pCT) can improve the accuracy of both patient positioning and dose calculation in proton therapy, enabling to accurately reconstruct ...

Proton radiography and tomography with application to proton therapy

Yet many technical challenges remain to be solved before proton CT scanners become commonplace in the clinic. Research and development in this field is ...

A proton imaging device: Design and status of realization

When a set of proton radiographs are taken from many angles, pCT can be performed in fashion similar to X-ray CT, even though the proton trajectories are not ...

A novel design of proton computed tomography detected by multiple ...

Uncertainty in proton range can be reduced by proton computed tomography (CT). A novel design of proton CT using a multiple-layer ionization ...

Image Reconstruction Software Using Proton Computed ...

Imaging protons enter the detector system from the left, pass through the patient, and are collected in the range detector on the right. By tracking individual ...

Characterization of a novel proton-CT scanner based on Silicon and ...

In order to reduce this uncertainty in range, one could use proton-CT images instead. The main goal of this work is to test the capabilities of a newly- ...

Detector Development for Proton Computed Tomography (pCT)

Sadrozinski, et al. “Conceptional design of a proton computed tomography system for applications in proton radiation therapy”, IEEE Trans. Nucl.

A proton Computed Tomography based medical imaging system

This paper reports on the activity of the INFN PRIMA/RDH collaboration in the development of proton Computed Tomography (pCT) systems based on single proton ...

Conceptual design of a proton computed tomography system for ...

Conceptual design of a proton computed tomography system for applications in proton radiation therapy. Proton computed tomography (pCT) has the potential to ...

High-energy proton imaging for biomedical applications - Nature

Typically an X-ray CT scan is performed prior to a particle therapy treatment. This scan is used for outlining structures, but also provides a ...

Year 1 Proton CT Application Reinhard W. Schulte

1990-1994. System and Design Coordinator, Vallylab Inc., a Pfizer company. ... proton computed tomography systems, have been constructed more recently or are in ...