Conveners
Advanced devices to measure energy deposition at the micro- and nanoscales
- Emanuele Scifoni (Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Application TIFPA-INFN, Trento, Italy)
Charged particle radiotherapy (CPT) with helium and deuterium was first used seventy years ago by Lawrence and Tobias [1]. CPT provides a better physical dose distribution than conventional X-ray treatment with a well-defined high dose region known as the Spread-Out Bragg Peak (SOBP) which can be positioned in the tumour with much lower doses to the surrounding tissues. This higher therapeutic...
Microdosimetry provides information about the pattern of energy deposition in biological targets that be correlated with biological effects and may be useful in planning and conducting radiation therapy. The methodology is clearly relevant to charged particle beam therapy but can provide relevant information also to BNCT, targeted internal emitters and conventional photon therapy.
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