Charged particle therapy has been largely driven and influenced by nuclear physics. The
increase in energy deposition density along the ion path in the body allows reducing the …

Secondary radiation emission induced by nuclear reactions is correlated to the path of ions
in matter. Therefore, such penetrating radiation can be used for in vivo control of …

Abstract The FLUKA Monte Carlo code is used extensively at CERN for all beam-machine
interactions, radioprotection calculations and facility design of forthcoming projects. Such …

Protons are an interesting modality for radiotherapy because of their well defined range and
favourable depth dose characteristics. On the other hand, these same characteristics lead to …

Monte Carlo (MC) codes are increasingly spreading in the hadrontherapy community due to
their detailed description of radiation transport and interaction with matter. The suitability of a …

Exploitation of the full potential offered by ion beams in clinical practice is still hampered by
several sources of treatment uncertainties, particularly related to the limitations of our ability …

Hadron therapy allows for highly conformal dose distributions and better sparing of organs-
at-risk, thanks to the characteristic dose deposition as function of depth. However, the quality …

Reliable treatment planning of highly conformal scanned ion beam therapy demands
accurate tools for the determination and characterization of the individual pencil-like beams …

PURPOSE: To verify the usefulness of our developed beam ON-LINE positron emission
tomography (PET) system mounted on a rotating gantry port (BOLPs-RGp) for dose–volume …

The physical characteristics of proton beams are appealing for cancer therapy. The rapid
increase in operational and planned proton therapy facilities may suggest that this …