Implementation and initial clinical experience of offline PET/CT-based verification of scanned carbon ion treatment

Abstract Background and purpose We report on the implementation of offline PET/CT-based treatment verification at the Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Centre (HIT) and present first clinical cases for post-activation measurements after scanned carbon ion irradiation. Key ingredient of this in-vivo treatm...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Radiotherapy and oncology 2013-05, Vol.107 (2), p.218-226
Hauptverfasser:	Bauer, Julia, Unholtz, Daniel, Sommerer, Florian, Kurz, Christopher, Haberer, Thomas, Herfarth, Klaus, Welzel, Thomas, Combs, Stephanie E, Debus, Jürgen, Parodi, Katia
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Carbon - therapeutic use Carbon ion treatment Glioblastoma - radiotherapy Heavy Ions - therapeutic use Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Medicine Humans Monte Carlo Method Monte Carlo simulations Neoplasms - radiotherapy Offline PET Positron-Emission Tomography - methods Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods Treatment monitoring
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