While dose calculations are typically performed using a simplistic correspondence of Hounsfield units to electron density, recent developments in Dual Energy Computed Tomography (DECT) could provide significant improvements in characterizing human tissues in radiotherapy. The present study aims to establish and validate a DECT mathematical formalism and evaluate its accuracy in characterizing tissue in terms of electron density and effective atomic number for radiotherapy applications. A relationship between the effective atomic number and the mean excitation energy is proposed to calculate parameters for proton and heavy ion therapy, as the stopping power. A novel definition of the effective atomic number is also developed. A Gammex 467 ph...
A substantial component of range uncertainty in ion therapy is attributed to the prediction of ion s...
Proton radiation therapy is gaining popularity because of the unique characteristics of its dose dis...
International audiencePurposeDual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has been presented as a valid al...
Background and Purpose: The range uncertainty in particle therapy should be reduced to prevent healt...
Radiotherapy and particle therapy treatment planning require accurate knowledge of the electron dens...
Dual-energy computed tomography enables the determination of relative electron density and effective...
Dual energy computed tomography (DECT) can provide simultaneous estimation of relative electron dens...
This thesis investigates uncertainties emerging from CT data to stopping power ratio (SPR) cali- bra...
Despite extensive research in dual-energy computed tomography (CT), single-energy CT (SECT) is still...
Despite extensive research in dual-energy computed tomography (CT), single-energy CT (SECT) is still...
Purpose: To describe an implementation of dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) for calculation of ...
The photon counting detector (PCD) in computed tomography (CT) can count the number of incoming phot...
To compute the dose distribution, treatment planning systems require the exact anatomical location o...
Background and purpose: Dual energy CT (DECT) imaging can provide both the electron density rho(e) a...
Proton therapy is the use of a proton beam rather than a traditional X-ray beam in the treatment of ...
A substantial component of range uncertainty in ion therapy is attributed to the prediction of ion s...
Proton radiation therapy is gaining popularity because of the unique characteristics of its dose dis...
International audiencePurposeDual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has been presented as a valid al...
Background and Purpose: The range uncertainty in particle therapy should be reduced to prevent healt...
Radiotherapy and particle therapy treatment planning require accurate knowledge of the electron dens...
Dual-energy computed tomography enables the determination of relative electron density and effective...
Dual energy computed tomography (DECT) can provide simultaneous estimation of relative electron dens...
This thesis investigates uncertainties emerging from CT data to stopping power ratio (SPR) cali- bra...
Despite extensive research in dual-energy computed tomography (CT), single-energy CT (SECT) is still...
Despite extensive research in dual-energy computed tomography (CT), single-energy CT (SECT) is still...
Purpose: To describe an implementation of dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) for calculation of ...
The photon counting detector (PCD) in computed tomography (CT) can count the number of incoming phot...
To compute the dose distribution, treatment planning systems require the exact anatomical location o...
Background and purpose: Dual energy CT (DECT) imaging can provide both the electron density rho(e) a...
Proton therapy is the use of a proton beam rather than a traditional X-ray beam in the treatment of ...
A substantial component of range uncertainty in ion therapy is attributed to the prediction of ion s...
Proton radiation therapy is gaining popularity because of the unique characteristics of its dose dis...
International audiencePurposeDual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has been presented as a valid al...