Spherical Coordinates: Triple Integral

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Using spherical coordinates evaluate:

$ \displaystyle \int_0^3 \ \int_0^{\sqrt{9-y^2}} \int_{\sqrt{x^2+y^2}}^{\sqrt{18-x^2-y^2}} (x^2+y^2+z^2) \ dz \ dx \ dy $

From the rough sketch that i drew:

I find out that $\theta$ lies between $0$ and $\pi$/2

Then from the range of the integral of

$z$ = $\sqrt{x^2+y^2}$

$\phi$ = $\pi$/4

Thus, $\phi$ lies between $0$ and $\pi$/4

Lastly, for $\rho$

$z$ = ${\sqrt{18-x^2-y^2}}$ , $\rho$ is ${\sqrt{18}}$

Thus, $\rho$ lies between $0$ and ${\sqrt{18}}$

But my answer is wrong, can you please guide me since I think that my range of $\rho$ is wrong?

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Bounds you have come up with are correct. You may have made a mistake somewhere in computation.

$I = \displaystyle \int_0^{\pi/2} \int_0^{\pi/4}\int_0^{\sqrt{18}} \rho^4 \ \sin \phi \ d\rho \ d\phi \ d\theta$

$ = \displaystyle \int_0^{\pi/2} \int_0^{\pi/4} \frac{972\sqrt2}{5} \sin \phi \ d\phi \ d\theta$

$ = \displaystyle \int_0^{\pi/2} \frac{972\sqrt2}{5} \left(1 - \frac{1}{\sqrt2}\right) \ d\theta$

$ \displaystyle = \frac{486 \pi}{5} (\sqrt2 - 1)$