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ArticleIEEE transactions on radiation and plasma medical sciences2017

Feasibility Studies of a New Event Selection Method to Improve Spatial Resolution of Compton Imaging for Medical Applications.

E Draeger, S Peterson, D Mackin, H Chen, S Beddar, J C Polf

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Article in IEEE transactions on radiation and plasma medical sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Secondary Particle Interactions in a Compton Camera Designed forIEEE transactions on radiation and plasma medical sciences · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

E DraegerDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 22 South Greene St., Baltimore, MD USA.
S PetersonDepartment of Physics, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa.
D MackinDepartment of Radiation Physics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX USA.
H ChenDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 22 South Greene St., Baltimore, MD USA.
S BeddarDepartment of Radiation Physics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX USA, and The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Science at Houston, Houston, TX USA.
J C PolfDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 22 South Greene St., Baltimore, MD 21201 USA.

Funding

Prompt Gamma Imaging for the in-vivo range verification during proton radiotherapyR01CA187416 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI BEDDAR, SAM, KAYE, WILLIAM ROBERT · 2015 to 2019
$2.7M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA187416
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A Compton imaging method for medical applications that includes new energy determination and data filtering techniques has been tested using several point sources with known emission lines. Using a prototype Compton camera, a distance-of-closest approach technique has been employed to determine the initial energy of the incoming

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Compton cameraprompt gamma imagingproton therapy

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PMID28736766
PMCPMC5515251

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