Secondary radiation emission induced by nuclear reactions is correlated to the path of ions
in matter. Therefore, such penetrating radiation can be used for in vivo control of …

Protons are an interesting modality for radiotherapy because of their well defined range and
favourable depth dose characteristics. On the other hand, these same characteristics lead to …

Exploitation of the full potential offered by ion beams in clinical practice is still hampered by
several sources of treatment uncertainties, particularly related to the limitations of our ability …

Monte Carlo (MC) codes are increasingly spreading in the hadrontherapy community due to
their detailed description of radiation transport and interaction with matter. The suitability of a …

Treatments delivered by proton therapy are affected by uncertainties on the range of the
beam within the patient, requiring medical physicists to add safety margins on the …

Hadron therapy allows for highly conformal dose distributions and better sparing of organs-
at-risk, thanks to the characteristic dose deposition as function of depth. However, the quality …

Proton and ion beams open up new vistas for the curative treatment of tumors, but adequate
technologies for monitoring the compliance of dose delivery with treatment plans in real time …

We tested the ability of a single Compton camera (CC) to produce 3-dimensional (3D)
images of prompt gammas (PGs) emitted during the irradiation of a tissue-equivalent plastic …

In this work, we present experimental results of a prompt gamma camera for real-time proton
beam range verification. The detection system features a pixelated Cerium doped lutetium …

The purpose of this work was to compare the clinical adaptation of prompt gamma (PG)
imaging and positron emission tomography (PET) as independent tools for non-invasive …