Abstract

Particle therapy is a technique that uses accelerated charged ions for cancer treatment and combines a high irradiation precision with a high biological effectiveness in killing tumor cells [1]. Informations about the secondary particles emitted in the interaction of an ion beam with the patient during a treatment can be of great interest in order to monitor the dose deposition. For this purpose an experiment at the HIT (Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center) beam facility has been performed in order to measure fluxes and emission profiles of secondary particles produced in the interaction of therapeutic beams with a PMMA target. In this contribution some preliminary results about the emission profiles and the energy spectra of the detected secondaries will be presented.

Details

Title
Measurement of secondary particle production induced by particle therapy ion beams impinging on a PMMA target
Author
Toppi, M; Battistoni, G; Bellini, F; Collamati, F; De Lucia, E; Durante, M; Faccini, R; Frallicciardi, P M; Marafini, M; Mattei, I; Morganti, S; Muraro, S; Paramatti, R; Patera, V; Pinci, D; Piersanti, L; Rucinski, A; Russomando, A; Sarti, A; Sciubba, A; Senzacqua, M; E Solfaroli Camillocci; Traini, G; Voena, C
Section
V. Nuclear Energy and Applications of Nuclear Science and Technologies
Publication year
2016
Publication date
2016
Publisher
EDP Sciences
ISSN
21016275
e-ISSN
2100014X
Source type
Conference Paper
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
1792785728
Copyright
© 2016. This work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.