EPJ Web of Conferences (Jan 2016)

Measurement of secondary particle production induced by particle therapy ion beams impinging on a PMMA target

  • Toppi M.,
  • Battistoni G.,
  • Bellini F.,
  • Collamati F.,
  • De Lucia E.,
  • Durante M.,
  • Faccini R.,
  • Frallicciardi P.M.,
  • Marafini M.,
  • Mattei I.,
  • Morganti S.,
  • Muraro S.,
  • Paramatti R.,
  • Patera V.,
  • Pinci D.,
  • Piersanti L.,
  • Rucinski A.,
  • Russomando A.,
  • Sarti A.,
  • Sciubba A.,
  • Senzacqua M.,
  • Solfaroli Camillocci E.,
  • Traini G.,
  • Voena C.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611705007
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 117
p. 05007

Abstract

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Particle therapy is a technique that uses accelerated charged ions for cancer treatment and combines a high irradiation precision with a high biological effectiveness in killing tumor cells [1]. Informations about the secondary particles emitted in the interaction of an ion beam with the patient during a treatment can be of great interest in order to monitor the dose deposition. For this purpose an experiment at the HIT (Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center) beam facility has been performed in order to measure fluxes and emission profiles of secondary particles produced in the interaction of therapeutic beams with a PMMA target. In this contribution some preliminary results about the emission profiles and the energy spectra of the detected secondaries will be presented.