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Overview of the LLUMC/UCSC/CSUSB Phase 2 Proton CT Project.

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Proton CT (pCT) has been identified as a potential solution for the range uncertainty problem of proton (or heavy ion) radiation therapy. In recent years, and with limited funding, a pCT scanner system suitable for head-size phantoms was developed (see report by Hurley et al. in these proceedings [1]. The concepts for this system were borrowed from High Energy Physics. This system, although suitable for the evaluation of this new imaging modality and its potential clinical advantages, is too slow for clinical application, both with respect to the data acquisition speed and the speed of image reconstruction. In 2011, a collaboration of the Department of Radiation Medicine at Loma Linda University Medical Center, the Santa Cruz Institute of Particle Physics at UC Santa Cruz, and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at California State University San Bernardino received funding from the NIH for a 4-year project to further develop pCT by building a new pCT scanner system (phase 2) that will be suitable for clinical applications. This report summarizes the design concepts for the new pCT system that will be evaluated within this project.

Source: PubMed

Authors: R W Schulte, V Bashkirov, R Johnson, H F-W Sadrozinski, K E Schubert

Institutions: Loma Linda University Medical Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, California State University, San Bernardino

Language: English

Topic: Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry

Subfield: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Award: Translating Proton CT from the Physics Laboratory to Clinical Application