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N. Belcari
Researcher at Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Publications - 24
Citations - 195
N. Belcari is an academic researcher from Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare. The author has contributed to research in topics: Proton therapy & Imaging phantom. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 24 publications receiving 165 citations.
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The INSIDE Project: Innovative Solutions for In-Beam Dosimetry in Hadrontherapy
M. Marafini,Andrea Attili,G. Battistoni,N. Belcari,Maria Giuseppina Bisogni,Niccolò Camarlinghi,F. Cappucci,Matteo Cecchetti,Piergiorgio Cerello,F. Ciciriello,G.A.P. Cirrone,S. Coli,F. Corsi,Giacomo Cuttone,E. De Lucia,S. Ferretti,R. Faccini,Elisa Fiorina,P.M. Frallicciardi,Giuseppe Giraudo,E. Kostara,Aafke Kraan,F. Licciulli,B. Liu,N. Marino,Cristoforo Marzocca,G. Matarrese,C. Morone,Matteo Morrocchi,Silvia Muraro,Vincenzo Patera,Francesco Pennazio,Cristiana Peroni,Luca Piersanti,M.A. Piliero,G. Pirrone,Angelo Rivetti,Fabrizio Romano,Valeria Rosso,Paola Sala,Alessio Sarti,A. Sciubba,Giancarlo Sportelli,C. Voena,Richard Wheadon,A. Del Guerra +45 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the state-of-the-art work in hadrontherapy with respect to the following topics: Dosimetry in Hadron Therapy M.A. Marafini, A.P. Wheadon and A.G. Fermi.
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Monte Carlo simulation tool for online treatment monitoring in hadrontherapy with in-beam PET: A patient study.
Elisa Fiorina,Veronica Ferrero,Francesco Pennazio,Guido Baroni,Giuseppe Battistoni,N. Belcari,Piergiorgio Cerello,Niccolò Camarlinghi,Mario Ciocca,A. Del Guerra,M. Donetti,Arnaud Ferrari,Simona Giordanengo,Giuseppe Giraudo,Andrea Mairani,Matteo Morrocchi,Cristiana Peroni,Angelo Rivetti,M.D. Da Rocha Rolo,Sandro Rossi,Valeria Rosso,Paola Sala,Giancarlo Sportelli,Sara Tampellini,Francesca Valvo,Richard Wheadon,Maria Giuseppina Bisogni +26 more
TL;DR: The INSIDE MC simulation tool is described and the results of the first in vivo agreement evaluation are reported, which have justified a clinical trial, in which the simulation tool will be used on a daily basis to study the compliance tolerances between the measured and simulated PET images.
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Comparison of two dedicated 'in beam' PET systems via simultaneous imaging of (12)C-induced beta(+)-activity.
F. Attanasi,N. Belcari,A. Del Guerra,Wolfgang Enghardt,S. Moehrs,Katia Parodi,Valeria Rosso,S Vecchio +7 more
TL;DR: This paper compares the performances of two different 'in-beam' PET systems which were simultaneously operated during and after low energy carbon ion irradiation of PMMA phantoms at GSI Darmstadt.
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Custom breast phantom for an accurate tumor SNR analysis
Maria Nerina Cinti,Roberto Pani,F. Garibaldi,Rosanna Pellegrini,M. Betti,Nico Lanconelli,A. Riccardi,Renato Campanini,Guido Zavattini,G. Di Domenico,A. Del Guerra,N. Belcari,Walter Bencivelli,A. Motta,A. Vaiano,I.N. Weinberg +15 more
TL;DR: A self-designed solid breast phantom with different sized hot spots (tumors) is utilized, to investigate the realistic possibility of T1a tumors detection by comparing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values obtained by different imagers.
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Monitoring Proton Therapy Through in-Beam PET: An Experimental Phantom Study
A. Topi,A.C. Kraan,Dawid Krzempek,K. Krzempek,Matteo Morrocchi,Pawel Olko,Paola Sala,Giancarlo Sportelli,Valeria Rosso,Silvia Muraro,Giuseppe Battistoni,N. Belcari,Maria Giuseppina Bisogni,Niccolò Camarlinghi,A. Del Guerra,Arnaud Ferrari,Renata Kopeć +16 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the use of a positron emission tomography (PET) system to monitor the proton therapy, based on the comparison between the activity generated in the irradiated volume during the treatment, with the activity distribution obtained with Monte Carlo (MC) simulation.