Ilaria Mattei

TL;DR: The measurements of charged particle fluxes produced by the interaction of a 220 MeV/u carbon ion beam at GSI, Darmstadt, with a polymethyl methacrylate target are reported and a method to monitor the dose profile and the position of the Bragg peak inside the target is proposed.

TL;DR: Uptake of 90Y-DOTATOC in meningiomas was high and the tracer can still be effective for RGS, particularly if further research and development is done to improve the performance of the β− probe.

TL;DR: The use of β−-emitting radio-tracers and β− probes is proposed and the advantage of this method with respect to the previously explored ones: the electron low penetration power allows for simple and versatile probes and could extend RGS to tumours for which background originating from nearby healthy tissue makes probes less effective.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used diphenylbutadiene doped para-terphenyl samples to measure a light attenuation length of 4.73 ± 0.6 µm for 660 µm photons, with respect to electrons of the same energy.

TL;DR: The design of a new tracking device for beam range real-time monitoring in pencil beam carbon ion therapy is presented and detector reconstruction efficiency for charged particle emission profile is evaluated using a Monte Carlo simulation considering a quasi-realistic case of a non-homogenous phantom.