The introduction of advanced techniques and technology in radiotherapy has greatly
improved our ability to deliver highly conformal tumor doses while minimizing the dose to …

Proton beams are widely used worldwide to treat localized tumours, the lower entrance dose
and no exit dose, thus sparing surrounding normal tissues, being the main advantage of this …

Experimental microdosimetry deals with the measurement of charged particle energy
deposition in tissue equivalent volumes, ranging in size from nanometres to micrometres …

ICRU Report 98, Stochastic Nature of Radiation Interactions: Microdosimetry - LA Braby, V.
Conte, M. Dingfelder, DT Goodhead, LS Pinsky, AB Rosenfeld, T. Sato, AJ Waker, S. Guatelli …

The RBE-weighted absorbed dose, called “biological dose,” has been routinely used for
carbon-ion treatment planning in Japan to formulate dose prescriptions for treatment …

Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is a next-generation radiotherapy that combines
neutron beams with boron compounds that selectively accumulate in cancer cells. Because …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the response of two different types of solid‐
state microdosimeters, that is, silicon and diamond, and their uncertainties. A study of the …

Purpose The aim of this paper is to investigate the limits of LET monitoring of therapeutic
carbon ion beams with miniaturized microdosimetric detectors. Methods Four different …

A new tissue-equivalent proportional counter based on a thick gas electron multiplier
(THGEM) was developed and tested for microdosimetry. A systematic test was conducted at …

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