Prompt gamma imaging with a slit camera for real time range control in particle therapy

In a growing number of cutting edge centres around the world, radiotherapy treatments delivered by beams of protons and carbon ions offer the opportunity to target tumours with unprecedented conformality. But a sharper dose distribution increases the need for efficient quality control. Treatments ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smeets, Julien
Other Authors: Dehaes, Jean-Claude
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:fr
Published: Universite Libre de Bruxelles 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209624