In this contribution, we review the state-of-the-art of detector technologies applied to the
particle therapy (PT) field. The increase of interest in PT has recently triggered a lot of efforts …

During the past few years, we have studied the granulated silica method as a versatile and
cost effective way of fiber preform production and the sol-gel method. Until now, we have …

A detector based on doped silica and optical fibers was developed to monitor the profile of
particle accelerator beams of intensity ranging from 1 pA to tens of μA. Scintillation light …

The new Bern cyclotron laboratory aims at industrial radioisotope production for PET
diagnostics and multidisciplinary research by means of a specifically conceived beam …

A beam profiler called the Universal Beam Monitor (UniBEaM) has been developed by D-
Pace Inc.(Canada) and the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Laboratory for …

A medical cyclotron accelerating H− ions to 18 MeV is in operation at the Bern University
Hospital (Inselspital). It is the commercial IBA 18/18 cyclotron equipped with a specifically …

The concept of theranostics in nuclear medicine is based on the use of a pair of
radioisotopes to label radiopharmaceuticals for both diagnosis and therapy and is essential …

We describe our R&D effort to develop potentially radiation-hard scintillating and
wavelength shifting fibers by doping fused-silica with cerium. The cerium-doped optical …

A Ce-doped silica fiber, part of the UniBEaM25 charged-particle beam profiler system from D-
Pace, was tested for use in proton therapy dosimetry with a 74 MeV proton beam at the …

Featured Application Use of fiber optics to monitor a target on a medical cyclotron. Abstract
Many medical isotopes can be produced on a small cyclotron. The alignment and profiles of …