Dawid Krzempek
(Cyclotron Centre Bronowice, Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland.)
Proton therapy is a method of radiotherapy allowing the delivery of a high radiation dose to the target volume in a conformal way. This is possible thanks to the very beneficial shape of the depth dose distribution of proton beam, called the Bragg peak.
However, the steep distal fall-off of the beam can result in over- or under-dosage in critical regions. Therefore the monitoring of the beam range is very needed. The one of the method of such monitoring is the in-beam PET system, DoPET developed by the group from Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa (Italy). In order of an effective development of this kind of system the cooperation with proton therapy center is necessary. The tests of DoPET were performed, among others, in Cyclotron Centre Bronowice, Institute of Nuclear Physics in Cracow (Poland), which is equipped with two Gantries with pencil beam scanning (PBS) system.
In order to evaluate the capabilities of DoPET several irradiations of different materials phantoms mimicking human tissue have been performed. The experimental conditions were simulated with FLUKA Monte Carlo code. The data analysis was performed focusing on the quantification of the activated volume in terms of depth and signal height.
In this work the experiment will be presented in details, including all issues which have to be solved by the beam provider to convert the treatment parameters into the ones required by the PET system. The comparison of the Monte Carlo predictions vs. experimental data will be shown as well.
Dawid Krzempek
(Cyclotron Centre Bronowice, Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland.)
Giuseppe Battistoni
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Italy)
Nicola Belcari
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Italy. Department of Physics, University of Pisa, Italy)
Giuseppina Bisogni
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Italy. Department of Physics, University of Pisa, Italy)
Niccolo Camarlinghi
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Italy. Department of Physics, University of Pisa, Italy.)
Alberto Del Guerra
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Italy. Department of Physics, University of Pisa, Italy.)
Alfredo Ferrari
(CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
Renata Kopeć
(Cyclotron Centre Bronowice, Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland.)
Aafke Kraan
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Italy.)
Katarzyna Krzempek
(Cyclotron Centre Bronowice, Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland.)
Matteo Morrocchi
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Italy. Department of Physics, University of Pisa, Italy.)
Silvia Muraro
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Italy.)
Paweł Olko
(Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland.)
Paola Sala
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Italy.)
Giancarlo Sportelli
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Italy. Department of Physics, University of Pisa, Italy.)
Albana Topi
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Italy. Department of Physical Sciences, Earth and Environment, University of Siena, Italy.)
Valeria Rosso
( Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Italy. Department of Physics, University of Pisa, Italy.)
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