Vincenzo Monaco

TL;DR: The dose delivery system described in this paper is one among the few worldwide existing systems to operate ion beam for modulated scanning radiotherapy and it has proven to guide and control the therapeutic pencil beams reaching performances well above clinical requirements.

TL;DR: The algorithm implemented for this work can optimize efficiently the scanning path of quasidiscrete scanned particle beams, which shows a reduction of the transit dose when the optimized paths are used.

TL;DR: The design of a particle therapy system that integrates an innovative beam delivery concept based on a static toroidal gantry and an imaging configuration suitable for beam and online range monitoring is proposed and discussed, showing a precision in the reconstruction of the activity distribution from a clinical treatment plan better than the state-of-the-art devices.

TL;DR: The feasibility and reliability of using a simple and fast reconstruction method to perform range evaluations, given the correct image post-processing, are demonstrated.

TL;DR: In-beam PET and PGT can be combined to provide online feedback on the particle range by detecting the radiation related to the β + activity, while PGT relies on the time-offlight (TOF) of prompt photons as discussed by the authors.