Daria Boscolo, Daria Kostyleva, Christoph Schuy, Uli Weber, Emma Haettner, Sivaji Purushothaman, Peter Dendooven, Timo Dickel, Vasyl Drozd, Bernhard Franczack, Hans Geissel, Christine Hornung, Felix Horst, Erika Kazantseva, Natalia Kuzminchuk-Feuerstein, Giulio Lovatti, Ivan Mukha, Chiara Nociforo, Stephane Pietri, Marco Pinto, Claire-Anne Reidel, Heidi Roesch, Olga Sokol, Yoshiki K Tanaka, Helmut Weick, Jianwei Zhao, Christoph Scheidenberger, Katia Parodi, Marco Durante
Owing to the favorable depth-dose distribution and the radiobiological properties of heavy ion radiation, ion beam therapy shows an improved success/toxicity ratio compared to conventional radiotherapy. The sharp dose gradients and very high doses in the Bragg peak region, which represent the larger physical advantage of ion beam therapy, make it also extremely sensitive to range uncertainties. The use of β + -radioactive ion beams would be ideal for simultaneous treatment and accurate online range monitoring through PET imaging...
November 11, 2022: Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment