TY - GEN
T1 - Study on the use of electron-tracking compton gamma-ray camera to monitor the therapeutic proton dose distribution in real time
AU - Kabuki, Shigeto
AU - Ueno, Kazuki
AU - Kurosawa, Shunsuke
AU - Iwaki, Satoru
AU - Kubo, Hidetoshi
AU - Miuchi, Kentaro
AU - Fujii, Yusuke
AU - Kim, Dokyun
AU - Kim, Jongwon
AU - Kohara, Ryota
AU - Miyazaki, Osamu
AU - Sakae, Takeji
AU - Shirahata, Takashi
AU - Takayanagi, Taisuke
AU - Terunuma, Toshiyuki
AU - Tsukahara, Yutaro
AU - Yamamoto, Etsuji
AU - Yasuoka, Kiyoshi
AU - Tanimori, Toru
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Radiation therapy with proton and heavy-ion beams has been better established lately and the patient throughput is increasing. Although the therapy beam is controlled with high accuracy, it is difficult to know the location of distal dose falloff in the body. If real-time monitoring of the location is realized, the treatment quality would be improved. We have developed an electrontracking Compton camera (ETCC) for real-time monitoring on the proton therapy. Our ETCC has a wide energy dynamic range of 200-1300 keV and a wide field of view. Therefore, ETCC has a potential as a quality assurance tool for proton therapy. We simulated and conducted an experiment with a 155 MeV proton beam and a water phantom. We succeeded in imaging a Bragg peak with prompt gamma rays.
AB - Radiation therapy with proton and heavy-ion beams has been better established lately and the patient throughput is increasing. Although the therapy beam is controlled with high accuracy, it is difficult to know the location of distal dose falloff in the body. If real-time monitoring of the location is realized, the treatment quality would be improved. We have developed an electrontracking Compton camera (ETCC) for real-time monitoring on the proton therapy. Our ETCC has a wide energy dynamic range of 200-1300 keV and a wide field of view. Therefore, ETCC has a potential as a quality assurance tool for proton therapy. We simulated and conducted an experiment with a 155 MeV proton beam and a water phantom. We succeeded in imaging a Bragg peak with prompt gamma rays.
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U2 - 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5402130
DO - 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5402130
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77951191155
SN - 9781424439621
T3 - IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record
SP - 2437
EP - 2440
BT - 2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2009
T2 - 2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2009
Y2 - 25 October 2009 through 31 October 2009
ER -