Advances in Positron Emission Tomography for Proton Therapy Dose Monitoring

Rameshwar Prasad and Jagadeesh S Singh

Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Rush University Medical Centre, USA

^*Correspondance to: Rameshwar Prasad 

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Abstract:

Proton therapy is increasingly becoming a popular radiation therapy modality owing to its unique characteristics of Bragg peak. Proton therapy suffers from various uncertainties introduced during radiation treatment planning and dose delivery. PET imaging of proton induced positron emitter distributions provides in-vivo monitoring and verification of dose delivered in proton therapy. In
this review physics principles, history, development, and applications of PET to monitor and verify radiation dose delivered in proton therapy are presented. Different configurations of in-room inbeam, in-room off-beam, and off-room PET with proton beam are discussed. Insights on future developments and applications of PET as proton dose monitoring and verifying are presented.

Keywords:

Proton therapy; Positron emission tomography; Range; Dosimetry; Detector

Cite the Article:

Prasad R, Singh JS. Advances in Positron Emission Tomography for Proton Therapy Dose Monitoring. Clin Oncol. 2023;8:2001..