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At the new heavy ion tumor therapy facility of the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung at Darmstadt positron emission tomography (PET) has been implemented for in-beam and in-situ therapy control, i. e. during the tumor irradiation. The components necessary for this dedicated PET-imaging and their integration into the framework of therapy planning and quality assurance of heavy ion cancer treatments are presented. Results of the first application of this PET-method to patient treatments are reported.
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Enghardt, W., Debus, J., Haberer, T. et al. The application of PET to quality assurance of heavy-ion tumor therapy. Strahlenther Onkol 175 (Suppl 2), 33–36 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03038884
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