Sudár Ákos, Varga-Kőfaragó Mónika, Barnaföldi Gergely Gábor és Légrády Dávid (2021.07.01 - 2022.08.31)

Wigner Research Centre for Physics és BME Institute of Nuclear Techniques

Grant: NKFIH 2020-2.1.1-ED-2021-00179

Abstract: The goal of development of proton computed tomography is the accurate measurement of the relative stopping power (RSP) distribution of the patient, which is necessary to reduce safety zones around the tumor in proton therapy. During the pCT imaging the patient is imaged by protons, which has determined direction and energy before they go into the patient, and their direction and energy is measured after they come out of the patient. From this information the most likely path (MLP) and the energy deposition in the patient can be determined. The 3D image is reconstructed from the measured data with the use of order suppressed expectation maximalization (OSEM) algorithm, which is an accelerated version of maximum likelihood expectation maximalization (ML-EM) algorithm. The goal of the current project is to develop an image reconstruction code, which runs in parallel threads of CPU and use GPU as well to minimize the image reconstruction time. This software will be used in the future to reconstruct the measured data of a pCT detector developed by the Bergen pCT Collaboration. This work would be contribution to the work of the group and their later publications.