Prompt-Gamma Monitoring of Proton- and Carbon-Therapy. Combined Development of Time-of-Flight Collimated- and Compton-Cameras
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D. Dauvergne, N. Freud, J. Krimmer, J.M. Létang, E. Testa. Prompt-Gamma Monitoring of Protonand Carbon-Therapy. Combined Development of Time-of-Flight Collimatedand Compton-Cameras. II Symposium on Positron Emission Tomography, Sep 2014, Kraków, Poland. 127 (5), pp.1445-1448, 2015, ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA A: Proceedings of the II Symposium on Positron Emission Tomography, Kraków, September 21 24, 2014, <10.12693/APhysPolA.127.1445>.
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