Heavy ion particle therapy is a rapidly growing and potentially the most effective and precise radiotherapy technique. However, range uncertainties remain one of its limitations: they jeopardize the benefits of the sharp Bragg peak and force to use wide margins extending in the normal tissue.
The use of radioactive ion beams (RIBs) for simultaneous treatment and online range verification...
In this talk, I introduce a breakthrough idea of a detector with a 3D active measuring matrix capable of sampling the spatial distribution of the radiation dose. Such a device can perform a measurement in quasi-real-time and may bring the quality control of delivered therapeutic dose and the personalisation of the treatment plans to a new level.
Neutron Capture Therapy (NCT), since its first theoretical hypothesis of 1936 [1], was understood and applied mainly as a cancer treatment with few and occasional studies regarding other diseases [2,3]. Indeed, the high LET secondaries of 10B neutron capture reactions with their short ranges in tissues (less than 10 μm) makes the treatment selective at the single cell level, opening the route...
