Feasibility study of using fall‐off gradients of early and late PET scans for proton range verification
Cho J, Grogg K, Min C, Zhu X, Paganetti H, Lee H, Fakhri G. Feasibility study of using fall‐off gradients of early and late PET scans for proton range verification. Medical Physics 2017, 44: 1734-1746. PMID: 28273345, PMCID: PMC5462437, DOI: 10.1002/mp.12191.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsProton range verificationProton rangeMonte Carlo simulationsRange verificationFall-offIn-room positron emission tomographyCarlo simulationsResidual proton rangeDose fall-offPostirradiation delayPositron emission tomography imagingSOBP beamProton beamPositron emission tomographyPositron emission tomography scanPhantom studyIn-roomFunction of depthPhantomProtonOff-setMonteAcquisition timeBeamPositron emission tomography signal