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D. Sardina

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Carbon fragmentation measurements and validation of the GEANT4 nuclear reaction models for hadrontherapy

2012

Nuclear fragmentation measurements are necessary when using heavy-ion beams in hadrontherapy to predict the effects of the ion nuclear interactions within the human body. Moreover, they are also fundamental to validate and improve the Monte Carlo codes for their use in planning tumor treatments. Nowadays, a very limited set of carbon fragmentation cross sections are being measured, and in particular, to our knowledge, no double-differential fragmentation cross sections at intermediate energies are available in the literature. In this work, we have measured the double-differential cross sections and the angular distributions of the secondary fragments produced in the (12)C fragmentation at 6…

PhysicsNuclear reactionRadiological and Ultrasound TechnologyHEAVY-ION REACTIONS; BEAM TRANSPORT; THERAPY;Monte Carlo methodBinary numberHeavy Ion RadiotherapyTHERAPYCarbonSettore FIS/07 - Fisica Applicata(Beni Culturali Ambientali Biol.e Medicin)IonNuclear physicsMolecular dynamicsFragmentation (mass spectrometry)CascadeHEAVY-ION REACTIONSHumansRadiology Nuclear Medicine and imagingNuclear ExperimentQuantumMonte Carlo MethodBEAM TRANSPORT
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A Graph-Based Method for PET Image Segmentation in Radiotherapy Planning: A Pilot Study

2013

Target volume delineation of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) images in radiation treatment planning is challenging because of the low spatial resolution and high noise level in PET data. The aim of this work is the devel- opment of an accurate and fast method for semi-automatic segmentation of me- tabolic regions on PET images. For this purpose, an algorithm for the biological tumor volume delineation based on random walks on graphs has been used. Va- lidation was first performed on phantoms containing spheres and irregular in- serts of different and known volumes, then tumors from a patient with head and neck cancer were segmented to discuss the clinical applicability of this algo- rith…

Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle Informazionimedicine.diagnostic_testRadiotherapybusiness.industryComputer sciencemedicine.medical_treatmentGraph basedHead and Neck cancerImage segmentationGraphGraphRadiation therapySegmentationPETPositron emission tomographymedicineSegmentationComputer visionSegmentation Graph PET Head and Neck cancer RadiotherapyArtificial intelligenceRadiation treatment planningbusinessImage resolution
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A graph-based method for biological target volume segmentation

2013

Segmentation
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