Proton and ion beams are radiotherapy modalities of increasing importance and interest.
Because of the different biological dose response of these radiations as compared with high …

Simple Summary Usually, for dose planning in radiotherapy, the tumor is delimited as a
volume on the image of the patient together with other clinical considerations based on …

The interest in hadron therapy is growing fast thanks to the latest technological advances in
accelerators and delivery technologies, to the development of more and more efficient and …

Microdosimetric quantities have been used for assessing the radiation quality of hadron
therapy fields since long. They are stochastic quantities whose distributions depend on the …

Microdosimetric energy depositions have been suggested as a key variable for the modeling
of the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) in proton and ion radiation therapy. However …

In the past few years, miniaturized tissue-equivalent gas detectors (mini TEPCs) have been
developed for application of microdosimetry in radiotherapy. These mini-TEPCs are …

Generally, the main approaches for assessing the radiation protection (RP) quantities in
neutron fields are: i) the use of an instrument with a response to the protection quantity quasi …

The BNCT radiation field is complex because different beam components are mixed, each
one having different relative biological effectiveness (RBE). Microdosimetry with tissue …

The invention of tissue-equivalent proportional counters simulating micrometre diameter
volumes, intended to measure the linear energy transfer of a radiation field, resulted in a …

The neutron microdosimetric responses of the thick gas electron multiplier (THGEM) detector
were simulated. The THGEM is a promising device for microdosimetry, particularly for …