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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"hadrontherapy"”.
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Experimental study on carbon fragmentation for hadrontherapy
… for solid tumors treatment is represented by hadrontherapy, a radiotherapy technique which applies collimated beams of protons or heavier ions for the sterilization of tumor cells. Due to their very favorable profile of the released dose in tissue, the charged hadron beams can be very …
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Monte Carlo simulation studies for spatially fractionated radiation therapy techniques
… evaluate the possible gain in tissue sparing in hadrontherapy when a spatial fractionation of the dose is used. Monte Carlo simulations (GATE v.6) have been used as a method to assess the dose distributions in a cylindrical water phantom (16 cm height and 16 cm of diameter). The phantom was …
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Design and realization of a beam transport line for handling and selecting laser-driven ion beams for multidisciplinary applications
Hadrontherapy is currently considered to be one of the most advanced and precise external radiotherapy techniques for tumour treatment. Unfortunately, it availability is still very limited worldwide despite considerable clinical evidence in its favor. The main reasons for this are huge costs for …
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Experimental measurements and Monte Carlo simulations of a transport beamline for laser-driven proton beams
… for many applications and of course also for the hadrontherapy applications, that are the most demanding in terms of beam transport, handling, control and reliability. Significant effort, at laser/target level as well as by means of customised transport beamlines, is currently ongoing in several …
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PARTICLE SCINTILLATING TRACKERS: DESIGN AND READ-OUT OF REAL-TIME, LARGE-AREA, HIGHLY SEGMENTED DETECTORS
… diagnostics, in particular before or during a hadrontherapy treatment and muon tomography applied to cargo containers for the identification and localization of potential radioactive, high-Z substances that are illegally transported. The structure of this thesis is illustrated with the …
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A modular data acquisition system for high resolution clinical PET scanners
… PET (ibPET) for dose delivery monitoring in hadrontherapy. However, the wide range of design possibilities has a counter effect: it re¬quires the development of specifically tailored acquisition systems, whose cost and performances could actually prevent the achievement of the theoretical …
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A new prompt gamma spectroscopy-based approach for range verification in proton therapy
… (INnovative Solution for In-beam Dosimetry in hadronthErapy) PET scanner installed at CNAO (Centro Nazionale di Adronterapia Oncologica) in Pavia, Italy. Currently, it is part of a clinical trial and has acquired in-beam PET data during the treatment of various patients. Although encouraging …